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(Transcrito por TurboScribe.ai. Actualizar a Ilimitado para eliminar este mensaje.) Take your mark.

I was built to swim fast.

When you think of VDH, he's the first

man to swim in 48 seconds.

You're not the best when you believe it,

but when you know it.

Go, go, go!

He's arguably the greatest sprinter in swimming ever.

The motivation has to be inside of you.

I knew it was my last race, my

last Olympics, because I would retire after that.

There was only one goal, win my third

gold medal in 100 freestyle.

We knew he had an extremely strong finish,

and that he would be in the race.

And then, it was really, really hard to

keep up with him.

The winner of 12 Sydney and Athens Olympic

Games, representing the Netherlands, Pieter van den Hogenbaan.

The world's fastest Olympic swimmer.

The question is, what state will he be

in?

And at what level?

I knew I was not the best, the

fastest in the world back then.

So I knew if there was only 1

% chance to win that final, I would

be ready.

Take care of that.

I really went for it, but Alain Banar

was better, and I finished fifth.

He's only a few hundredth of the podium.

He swims faster than he's ever swum.

When I see him congratulating me, I still

have goosebumps.

It's VDH congratulating me for my Olympic title

in the pool at the finish.

It was a nice way for me to

finish my career, because I found out I

was not the best swimmer anymore.

Welcome.

This is the swim stadium with a very

difficult name, the Pieter van den Hogenbaan Swim

Stadium.

After my last Olympics in Beijing, 2008, the

mayor of Eindhoven said, OK, we need to

name the stadium.

It will be from now on the Pieter

van den Hogenbaan Swim Stadium.

And that's a really rather awkward name for

a swim stadium, but I have to live

with that.

We don't know if there are two O,

three A, two V, three H...

So this is kind of my legacy.

After the Olympics in Sydney, people were so

proud, and they asked me, what can we

do to improve swimming in the Netherlands?

And I said, OK, we need a place

to train.

And our prime minister, he gave us several

millions.

We created this pool together to become one

of the fastest pools in the world.

And I'm very happy to see that now

the next generation, that they really enjoy training

here and swimming here.

Hi.

Good afternoon.

Excellent.

I thought it would be nice to have

a water polo mat.

Yes, that would be nice.

But it's a bit of a mess here.

Are you happy?

Well, it's really special to see how tight

the regime is around the pool.

So the facilities are good.

Yes, nice.

Nice to hear.

It's also nice to see that the base

is still a bit of a mess.

I used to train in this one.

This is my old pool.

If you look at here, the water is

very dirty, and it's not a pool anymore.

My first memory in the swimming pool, I

was four years old.

I was very young back then.

But swimming was, for me, a natural movement.

When Pieter was three years old, I started

to give him swimming lessons, because it was

important to learn swimming for their safety.

My first coach was my mum.

I was happy that she was really into

swimming.

We shared the same passion.

He was a nice kid, a little bit

shy.

He was not a kid who was always

in the front.

He listened very well to his parents.

Good afternoon.

You're going to try it.

Yes, boy.

It's bad weather, Piet.

Look at this.

It's Dutch weather.

It's Dutch weather?

We're used to it.

When I was young, was I a talented

swimmer?

Your mother once told me that you were

about...

Eight?

Eight, about eight you were then.

And then, all of a sudden, you did

one lane in Butterfly after one demonstration of

your mother.

Now, then, you must be talented, I guess.

He started swimming twice a week, three times

a week.

When he was eight, nine, four times a

week, ten years.

And he started his first competition.

And he immediately won all the games.

When we came to professionalism, my wife told

me, she said, well, there is a very

young trainer in the south of the Netherlands,

in Maastricht.

Maybe we can ask him to come here.

I started coaching him when I was 23.

And at that time, he was 15.

This was Jaco Vraag, for the real Young

News.

Hello, Jaco Vraag.

Jaco is a central figure in Peter's story.

They were a couple, a duo.

There was never one without the other.

And they managed to build a relationship made

up of very strong friendship, very strong respect,

and listening to each other.

His first big success was actually as a

junior athlete.

So we went together to the European Junior

Championships.

It was a big thing, because if you

do well at those youth championships, there's a

chance you can make World Championships and even

the Olympics.

This is the final of 400.

400, this is your first race.

400 freestyle?

Yeah, 400 freestyle.

Is that you?

That's me.

Yeah, not a very nice technique, no.

No, not at all.

It was so close.

Such a close finish, and your finish is

excellent.

And then you see the scoreboard, and then

your reaction.

Yeah, yes.

400 freestyle!

Hey, Pete, what did you think of it?

What did you think of it?

Hey, congratulations, guys.

The hair, huh?

It's amazing.

The hair.

It's amazing, right?

I can't do that.

I can't do that.

He won the 100, 200 and 400 freestyle.

Wow.

And now he's on the same level as

the other swimmers.

I was so happy that I could show

the world my talent.

And it was the first year I worked

together with Jacques Ovejaere.

So the two of us, we looked at

each other and thought, OK, this is step

one.

We're ready for the next step.

So his first Olympics was 96 in Atlanta.

At that time, I wished I had a

little bit more experience as a coach.

I was 27, and he was 18.

Peter van den Hogenpans.

He's a bit of a youngster who's just

starting out in sprints.

A bit of a newbie.

So, yeah, we're really looking forward to it.

Stay in your line.

I finished fourth in 100 freestyle, and I

finished fourth in 200 freestyle.

And the fourth place is horrible, because in

Holland, if you win a medal, our queen

welcomes you, you can shake hands.

And that's quite something.

And I knew, OK, all my friends in

the Olympic team who won a medal will

have this ceremony, and I will be back

at home in my garden with a cold

glass of beer, and I have nothing.

After the Olympics in Atlanta, I really took

some time off, half a year, to really

rethink, am I really willing to become Olympic

champion?

Because it's tough.

He had some time to go out and

to have some fun, to have some drinks,

and he said, after a few months, I

thought, oh, I would like to be a

professional swimmer.

I thought, OK, now I want to train

smart.

I want to...

I have to create a team around me

to win the Olympics.

With a coach, and not just one, everything

a swimmer needs to train.

I found all kinds of specialists to create

the best program for myself.

The motto of my company was, let Peter

swim as fast as possible.

Peter is a Formula 1 swimmer, and Formula

1 swimmers train six hours, eight hours a

day.

Three times a week, we did strength and

conditioning work, so weightlifting, becoming stronger on land

as well.

And on top of that, most days, more

like a dry land warm-up exercise, core

body, stabilize, those kind of exercises as well.

You don't get an Olympic medal just by

delivery.

You really have to work hard for it.

Sydney is the birthplace of swimming.

A swimming pool ready to erupt and scream

for Australian swimmers.

There were two boys in the world, and

the rest of the world.

It was Jan Torp and VDH.

It must have been intimidating in that pool.

There were 17,000 people that were pretty

much cheering for me.

All the people were shouting, Thorpey, Thorpey!

I love to have pressure, because of the

pressure, I can do my best.

There was that kind of sense that something's

about to happen.

Fight, go, Marks!

I knew I had to go out fast,

because that was my weapon.

The first 100m was extremely fast, and Jaco

said to Peter, if you hold on and

you're there, he can't beat you afterwards.

At 150m, I turned and I pushed off

the wall, and I went to go, and

I had nothing.

I had nothing, and I knew this was

just going to get worse and worse.

I was jumping and screaming, this man is

going to make it, he's going to make

it!

I touched the wall and I knew I'm

an Olympic champion.

World record and first Olympic medal for VDH.

My coach, Jaco, and my dad, they were

cheering and they were so happy, and I

really wanted to go as fast as I

could to give them a hug.

And that first Olympic title, at Thorpe in

Australia, I think it couldn't have been more

beautiful.

Swimming is about technique, technique, technique.

So we created a style that was perfect

for me.

The VDH style is a relatively flat swimming,

with a very weak angle of attack, and

as flat a breath as possible.

We worked a lot on body position and

lengthening the strokes and controlling the race.

It was, for me, very easy and natural

to grab the water firmly and push myself

forward.

His weakness definitely was starts and turns.

We tried everything to improve those, and they

improved in the end, but never to the

world-class level we actually wanted to.

But the swimming was exceptional.

Everyone trains more or less at the same

level, and the real difference is what's going

to be outside of all that.

At some point, you want it more than

anyone else.

I won already the gold, I broke the

world record in 200 freestyle, I was in

top shape, I felt very strong.

I almost did a perfect race, touched the

wall, and the people in Australia, the audience,

were like, wow!

World record of 100 metres.

He was the first to go under 48

seconds.

I was 15 at the time, and I

thought, how can you swim less than 48

seconds on a 100-metre freestyle?

I followed him a bit later.

The day after, I thought, OK, I don't

have to chase that world record, it's mine,

I just have to take control of the

final.

It was the long-awaited duel between Alexandre

Popov, double winner of the title, and Peter

Van Den Hoevenbaan.

And Popov was the benchmark.

He was the man to beat.

Popov watched me, and I was so certain

that I could take control of the race.

It looked very close, but in the last

metres of the race, I geared up my

speed, I touched the wall, and became Olympic

champion.

That was wonderful.

He came out of the water, and he

came to me, jumping a little bit, and

limping too, because he had so much pain.

So he screamed to me, Dad, I'm in

pain, pain, pain.

And I was there, and I said, gold,

gold, gold.

He became the star of the World Championships

and the star of the Sydney Games.

There are practically only a few for him.

My life totally changed When you walk in

the Netherlands to the supermarket, everybody's looking, oh,

what do you eat?

When you want to go to a restaurant,

it was not possible, because everybody said, what

do you eat?

How are you?

To the movie, nothing was possible anymore.

And then you find out, whoa, what happened?

And so it really changed my life for

good.

Before the Olympics of Sydney, he was studying

medicine.

It was a very bad situation because he

couldn't combine it with his training facilities.

But after Sydney, he said, yes, I cannot

combine it anymore, or I became a bad

doctor like this, or a bad swimmer.

So I have to do something.

As a surgeon, as a doctor, I expected

Peter to become a doctor too.

I took two cold beers, bottled beers, and

I said, Dad, just take this beer.

I have to tell you something.

I won't become a doctor.

And he was very, very sad.

I have a good relationship with my dad.

So what about tonight?

Tonight, the match, PSV.

Are you nervous about it already?

I'm never nervous, but...

I am.

So nowadays, we are big supporters of PSV

Eindhoven, so we go together to football matches.

I think you will win easily.

Well, I hope so, but you know, those

guys from the eastern part of Europe, it's

always very difficult to beat them.

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HALF END OF THE EIGHTH HALF When I

came to Athens, I was a defending champion.

And I knew I would give everything to

defend my titles.

Being a defending Olympic champion is so much

harder than what it is to win the

first time.

It's perhaps the race of the century in

terms of Palmares, because he faces Jan Torp,

and then another swimmer emerging, Michael Phelps.

And so, the three of them are ready

for a race that we imagine will be

a blast.

I had really some problems with my lower

back, and I couldn't do my underwater kicking.

His legs are shaking on the blocks before

the race starts, and that's how much pressure

is on you.

Take your mark.

I was in front, in the lead of

the race, for 50 metres, 100 metres.

Even 150 metres, I was next to Ian

Thorpe.

And then he made this perfect turn.

He did some underwater kicking.

When I pushed off to go, I could

go.

And I knew off that turn what the

result was going to be.

For me, it was hard to maintain speed

and stay close to him.

It's not Peter who wins, it's Thorpe.

But it doesn't matter, because the podium, one

Thorpe, two Van den Oogenborden, and three Phelps,

it's still a lot of fun.

I was a bit disappointed because I was

the Olympic champion, but there are not many

swimmers who can touch the Olympic medal.

I was in front of Michael Phelps at

the Olympics.

On the other hand, at 100 metres, it

wasn't an issue for him to lose.

My opponent back then was Roland Schumann from

South Africa, the guy with the best start

in the world.

And my start back then was not very

good.

The day before, Peter said, Schumann will go

like hell, and will be very fast in

the first lap.

In the second lap, I will come back,

and at 75 metres, I will be equal.

And the last three, four metres, he will

blow up himself, and I will beat him.

And he did.

And he won with 600th of a second.

This is 600th of a second.

So I was very proud he did, but

it was amazing.

Unbelievable what he did there.

It's a bit of a twist in history,

to become the real successor of Popov by

being double Olympic champion.

I got very emotional when I touched the

wall, and the cameraman who was in the

pool, he just filmed me, so I knew,

OK, he will film the Olympic champion.

This means he films me, that I'm the

Olympic champion.

So I turned around, I saw my name

with number one, and then I tried to

start cheering a lot, because I was very

emotional.

He is double Olympic champion.

Since then, it has never been reiterated.

OLYMPIC CHAMPION The winner of the gold medal,

and Olympic champion, in a time of 48

.17 seconds, representing the Netherlands, Pieter van den

Hogenbaan.

After the Olympics in Beijing, when my career

was over, I just rethink, OK, when I'm

not a swimmer anymore, who am I?

If you're used to being top of the

world, then you have to find, you actually

have to create another dream.

He became an employee of Eiffel, which is

a big company.

Everyone in the Netherlands knows Pieter van den

Hogenbaan.

Everyone has seen what he has achieved in

terms of sports, how he has become Olympic

champion several times.

And that will, that drive, that passion that

he has, it really suits him, also in

the business world.

Pieter is our ambassador when it comes to

sports.

And his charisma, with that he is able

to open a lot of doors and connect

a lot of people and organizations.

I found out that I'm more than a

swimmer.

The only thing left for Pieter is to

be extremely proud of everything he has done,

of everything he has experienced.

When you are an Olympic champion, you have

been the best of the best.

He definitely earned his spot with the best

swimmers ever.

If I look back at his whole career,

I'm proud, because he did a wonderful, wonderful

job.

I was so happy with my career, I

was so happy with what I did.

But now I have to face other challenges,

and I'm happy to do that.