ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN)  -- For Olympic swimmer Eric Shanteau, the last two months have been a whirlwind. "Full of the best moments and the scariest moments of my life," says the 24-year-old Olympic swimmer. Eric Shanteau said he felt angry when he found out he had testicular cancer. "Getting to the Olympics was, has always been, my swimming dream since I was 8 or 9 years old. You know, right after I started swimming it was, 'I want to make an Olympic team. That's where I want to be'." In June, a week before the qualifying round of the Olympics he was told he had testicular cancer. "My initial reaction was probably anger more than anything else," he says. "I'm used to being in control of everything. I'm in control of how I train, how I race and then to all of a sudden have that control ripped away from me was tough."
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Olympic swimmer Eric Shanteau found out about his cancer in June
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He delayed treatment so he could compete in the games in Beijing
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He plans to compete in the 2009 World Swimming Championship in Rome
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Testicular cancer is diagnosed in about 1 in 300 men in their lifetime
Once back from @placeholder, Shanteau invited CNN to spend time with him the night before his surgery in Atlanta, Georgia.