Michael Phelps. Greatest Olympian??

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Originally Posted by LongGrain

short legs are terrible for swimming...

Ideally you'd have both. Long legs and a long torso... Taller the better for swimming. But proportionally, you're going to have one or the other, or a fairly evenly proportioned build. You can't have long legs for your height, and a long torso for the same height at the same time, and for a swimmer, a long torso is the more beneficial of the two.

Also I said "shorter legs"

I never said his legs are short. Only shorter than someone's who would be perfectly proportioned at his height.