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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 in 48 seconds.

You're not the best when you believe it,

but when you know it.

Gold, gold, gold.

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, to win my

third gold medal in 100 freestyle.

We knew he had an extremely strong finish,

and that he would eventually be in the

finish.

In lane three, the winner of gold, the

Sydney and Athens Olympic Games, representing the Netherlands,

Pieter Vanden Hogenbaum.

The question is, in what state will he

be, 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.

I really went for it, but

Alain Bonnard was better, and I finished fifth.

He's only a few hundredth of a 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 Vanden Hogenbaum Swim

Stadium.

After my last Olympics in Beijing, 2008, the

mayor of Eindhoven said, okay, we need to

name the stadium.

It will be from now on the Pieter

Vanden Hogenbaum Swim Stadium, and that's a really

rather awkward name for a swim stadium, but

I have to live with that.

So this is kind of my legacy.

After the Olympics in Sydney, people, they were

so proud and they asked me, what can

we do to improve swimming in the Netherlands?

And I said, okay, we need a place

to train, and our prime minister, he gave

us several millions and 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, they really enjoy training here

and swimming here.

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.

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 is my mom.

I was happy that she was really into

swimming.

We share the same passion.

Our good little swimmer.

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.

It's bad weather, Pieter.

Look at this.

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, about eight you were there.

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.

And 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's a very young

trainer in the south of the Netherlands, in

Maastricht.

Maybe we can ask him to come here.

I started coaching him.

I was 23.

And at that time, he was 15.

Jaco is a central figure in Peter's story.

It was a couple, a duo.

There was never one without the other.

And they managed to build a relationship made

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, 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.

Hey Pete, what did you think?

What did you think?

Hey, congratulations, guys.

Your hair.

Your hair.

Beautiful, right?

I can't go.

He won the 100, 200, and 400 freestyle.

I was so happy that I could show

the world my talent.

And it was the first year that I

worked together with Jacques Overharen.

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 Hogenpont.

He's a bit like the youngster who takes

off in a sprint.

A bit like the new cockerel.

We're looking forward to it.

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 and 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 have to create a team around

me to win the Olympics.

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 the

Formula 1 swimmer trains six hours, eight hours

a day.

Three times a week, we did strength condition

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.

It must have been intimidating in that pool.

There were 17,000 people who 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.

I knew I had to go out fast

because that was my weapon.

At 150 meters, 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 BDS.

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 this first Olympic medal at Thorpey in

Australia, I think there's nothing more beautiful.

Swimming is about technique, technique, technique.

So we created a style that was perfect

for me.

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.

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 100m.

He was the first to swim under 48

seconds.

I was 15 at the time and I

was thinking how can you swim under 48

seconds on a 100m 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 and touched the wall and I was

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 world's star and the star

of Sydney Games.

I mean, there is practically only one for

him.

My life totally changed.

When you walk in the Netherlands to the

supermarket everybody is 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 wow, what happened?

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 became

a doctor too.

I took two cold beers bottles of 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?

The match, PSV.

Are you nervous about it already?

I'm never nervous but yes, you are.

I think you will win easily.

Well, I hope so but you know those

guys from the eastern part of Europe that's

always very difficult to beat them.

When I came to Athens I was defending

champion and I knew I would give everything

to defend my titles.

Being defending Olympic champion is so much harder

than what it is to win the first

time.

I had

really

some problems with my lower back and I

couldn't do my shoulders shaking on the blocks

before the race starts and that's how much

pressure is on you.

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.

I was a bit disappointed because I was

the Olympic champion but there are not many

swimmers who can touch in front of Michael

Phelps at the Olympics.

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 3, 4 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 that was

amazing unbelievable what he did there.

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 am the

Olympic champion so I turned around I saw

my name with number 1 and then I

started cheering a lot because I was very

emotional.

He is the double Olympic champion since then

it has never been reiterated.

Presenting the Netherlands Peter van den Hogenbaan After

the Olympics in Beijing when my career was

over I just rethink ok when I am

not a swimmer anymore who am I?

If you are 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.

In the management board I

create programs for the people to stay fit

to be successful mentally and physically.

With this job I found out that I

am more than a swimmer.

When you are an Olympic champion you are

the best of the best.

Peter van den Hogenbaan