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Best of both worlds … Johnny Weissmuller competes at the 1924 Olympic Games in Paris.Best of both worlds … Johnny Weissmuller competes at the 1924 Olympic Games in Paris.Best of both worlds … Johnny Weissmuller competes at the 1924 Olympic Games in Paris.Best of both worlds … Johnny Weissmuller competes at the 1924 Olympic Games in Paris.Best of both worlds … Johnny Weissmuller competes at the 1924 Olympic Games in Paris.The guy – whose name was Johnny Weissmuller, and who had just been given the role of Tarzan – could definitely swim. In fact, “the world’s greatest swimmer” was true then, and it’s probably still true today. To get a measure of just how good he was, try this single fact for size: in 10 years of competition swimming, Johnny Weissmuller never lost a race. Not once.
No one has ever come close to a winning streak like Weissmuller’s, certainly not in swimming. Michael Phelps spent a decade undefeated at 200m butterfly, but lost in other disciplines during that time. Tamás Darnyi of Hungary probably came closest, with an eight-year undefeated streak in the brutal 200m and 400m medley events. But Weissmuller raced distances ranging from 50m to half a mile. He swam mostly front crawl, but also set world records for backstroke (“I got bored,” he said, “so I swam on my back, where I could spend more time looking around.”)

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