 Before the Games Moussambani had never seen a long Olympic-size swimming pool.He took up swimming eight months before the Olympics and had practised in a lake, and later a swimming pool in a hotel in Malabo, and trained by himself between 5 a.m. to 6 a.m for three days a week.After arriving in Sydney, Moussambani trained with the United States swimming team and received additional assistance from a South African coach in order to improve his technique.