Eric Moussambani

when we consider other great

Olympians, Eric the Eel Musambani of Equatorial Guinea, he clocked 112 seconds for a single 100-metre freestyle race.

So it's almost...

He beat Usain.

But then, d- like, sh- y- you have to kinda qualify inter- through interna- anyway, it became very clear she wasn't at the races, it compared to.

Kinda like Eddie the Eel.

Do you remember Eddie the Eel back in the '70s?

Eddie the Eagle.

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Eddie the Eagle.

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[laughs] He was a eel.

there should be standards, mate.

If you're going to bring this in, like when they stop Eric the Eel,

Yeah.

Doing

Yeah, but look.

She's also 20 years younger than Rachel.

This made Eric the Eel look...

It looked like he could easily do the channel.

all that he just tripped over anyway

okay uh have you heard of uh eric the eel then eric the eel oh yeah yeah what is that you run a boy eric the eel have you heard of him adam yeah yeah as in he like couldn't swim but he did Yeah,

he couldn't

swim, but he did.

So like one of the people that I interviewed once who is my favorite was Eric Wilson Barney.

Eric the Eel.

Do you remember him from 2000 Olympics? He went into the swimming.

He was from Equatorial Guinea.

I can't remember.

I think it was 100 meters breaststroke.

But everyone remembers Eric the Eel.

So I love these stories of that.

I don't know.

And you look at, in the, you know, uh, Eric the Eel, uh, Eddie the Eagle-

Yeah

... uh, the Jamaican bobsled team.

I also think people, people are going to hate me saying this, but I do believe it to the core of my heart.

Do you remember Eric the eel?

So I spoke to Evie about that last night.

Yeah.

So Eric the eel came out and realized that his qualifying time was from not a 50 meter pool.

And when he came out and saw the 50 meter pool, he,

But wasn't he from a country that didn't have pools?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.