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The 5 Most Chill-Inducing Olympic Moments
The Best Article Every day — Written by Daniel Murphy There are many reasons to watch the Olympics. Maybe you’re all caught up on Mad Men and need something to watch with dinner. Maybe you attend lots of fancy cocktail parties where stories of international heroics go over real well. Heck, maybe you just need an in with the new Australian office assistant and working in “breaststroke” is just the ticket. But the real reason is that deep down inside you know that there’s nothing like a global sporting competition to create some memorable Morgan Freeman voiceover moments. And sure, like most things for which we are ...

Olympic Memories: Eric "The Eel" Moussambani
YesButNoButYes Stories — From the Olympic Sports Desk... This is a true story. In 2000 a young man named Eric Moussambani from Equatorial Guinea qualified for the Sydney Games through a "wild card." The wild card was designed to encourage developing countries without expensive training facilities to get more involved in Olympic sports. "The Eel" learned to swim eight months prior to the Olympics. He was 22-years-old. He learned and sort-of-practiced in a hotel pool. One of only two pools in all of Equatorial Guinea. (A very small African nation.) Before the Olympics, Moussambani had never even seen a 50 meter sized ...