Diverse motivations for Olympic participation - meet Eric 'The Eel' Moussambani
You'd be surprised, but different people have different motivations for participating in The Games - the Olympics. 16 years ago at the Sydney Olympics, the world got to meet Eric Moussambani - an unlikely Olympic hero.
After two false starts, Eric 'The Eel' Moussambani marked himself in viewers' hearts forever.
Those Olympic 'faux pas' would make this swimmer from Equatorial Guinea make history in the oddest kind of way.
Watch and learn more about his story.