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Stany Kempompo Ngangola, born 8 January 1974, is a swimmer and electrical engineer from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
He represented his country at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Due to a misprint in his personal best time, he was rumoured by the international media to be a potential successor to "Eric the Eel" – a spectacular underperformer. He was prematurely nicknamed "Stany the Snail", until he actually swam and the media conceded that he "wasn't too bad".[1] Kempompo finished last in the 50 metre freestyle event, with a time of 35.19.
He was also nicknamed "Stany the Stingray" in the Danish, Argentinian, British, Canadian, New Zealand and Australian press.[2][3][4][5][6]
External links
- Biography on the official website of the Beijing Olympics
Notes
- "Olympics: Stany was no Snail, much to our disappointment", The Guardian, August 14, 2008
- "Mød Stany the Stingray" Archived 2008-08-18 at the Wayback Machine, Ekstra Bladet, August 15, 2008
- "En Sydney fue Mussambani; en Pekín, el congoleño Ngangola", La Nacion, August 15, 2008
- "Move over Eddie the Eagle and éric the Eel" Archived 2008-08-21 at the Wayback Machine, The Gazette, August 15, 2008
- Moloney, John-Paul (August 14, 2008). "Stany the stingray". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved November 13, 2011.
- "'The Snail' takes up where 'The Eel' left off", The Independent, August 15, 2008
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