That's it, Michael Phelps is a mutant
 

The guy is the Wayne Gretzky/Michael Jordan of swimming, no two ways about it. Just watched him win his 21st medal, gold of course, in the 100m butterfly. Commentator says he has a "six-foot-seven-inch wingspan" and he is, like me, 6' 4" tall.

So I took it upon myself to measure my own "wingspan" just to see how this Canadian tundra sloth compares. I've always been known as the guy with the long arms, and sure enough..... my double-arms-length measurement, or "wingspan" as they are calling it, is just over six foot five.


Conclusion: Phelps is a mutant.

dude's fucking nuts

It's much more than that...

He has hyperflexible ankles that allow his feet to move in a much wider range of motion than yours. He has a disproportionately small torso and long legs. They have done a bunch of reports and the guy has just about every natural advantage a human could have for swimming.

Still his records and all others will be broken very soon by 'disabled' athletes with prosthetic devices that give them more advantages.
http://www.latimes.com/sports/olympi...6434101.column

Within a decade swimmers with 1 arm will be breaking world records left and right ;)

It's the weed.

I'm convinced there was some genetic engineering going on secretly prior to his conception.

Sadly (for him) the geneticists focused only on traits that enhance his athletic ablity and neglected such traits as straight teeth.

Mutant.

He does have piranha teeth. Maybe you are onto something.

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Mutant on weed.

Must have some British in his ancestry.

just think in 20 year time japan is going to have the best teem for everything

:) cool info about Phelps :thumbsup

Canada needs a Phelps to clean up the swimming events

Only left OR right, depends which arm they're missing. :)

Yeah finger tip to finger tip should be very close to how tall you are. I'm 5' 11 and my span is 6' exactly. Many hallways are exactly 6' wide... I barely nick both walls at the same time.

Oh yeah and Phelps is definitely a mutant lol.

looool

just loool

Phelps has a few genetic defects.

Marfan's Syndrome, giving him long limbs and fingers.

A connective tissue disorder, allowing him flexibility that other swimmers don't have.

His body produces less Lactic Acid than other athletes, making his recovery times much better. This means more working out and most importantly, the ability to swim two races in the same hour as if the first race never even happened.

Hes amazing but this is proof that there are WAY too many swimming events

Id so do him!

lol:1orglaugh

He's a retired mutant now.

Wonder what kind of pension plan mutants have.

Yeah the guy is a beast good for him!

If Phelps was a country, he'd be #40 in the all-time overall medal table. So I agree, he is indeed a mutant. =)

That is it... Cutting the legs off tomorrow and training for next time.

free weed and fish for the rest of your life!

If Wayne Gretzky played today he wouldn't even be in the top 10

Hell, I can't think of any 51 year old guys who could compete...Or were you going to strip 30 years off of him?

he's got long wingspan and that gives him some advantage over the others.

i thought from fingertip to fingertip is suppose to equal your height

The Bugatti Veyron of swimming
The F22 Raptor of swimminng
The Lockheed Blackbird of swimming
The Tianhe-1 supercomputer of swimming
The Formula Rossa Rollercoaster of swimming
The Stephen Hawkings of swimming
The Barrett .50cal of swimming
The Voyager 1 probe of swimming
The Everest of Swimming
The Challenger Deep of Swimming
The Sub-Zero Fridge of swimming







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he has webbed feet too

In climbing it's referred to as the Ape Index.

My husband has a +3 .. it's pretty crazy.