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11 Succeed at Being a “Tryer”Even When You’re a “Failure”
In the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney an unlikely hero emerged. I’m talking about Eric Moussambani, a swimmer from Equatorial Guinea. Eric began the sport just nine months before the games, and he trained in a small hotel swimming pool. In fact, his biggest concern during a television interview seemed to be whether he could finish his race, which would be the longest distance he had ever swum.
When the time came for him to swim in his assigned qualifying heat, the two other swimmers in the heat were disqualified for false starts. So he swam the whole race alone in the pool to the wild cheers of hundreds of appreciative spectators.
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