@momentsofsport26 on Instagram: "In the mid-2000s, at the absolute peak of Michael Phelps’ powers, swimming briefly stepped outside the rulebook and into spectacle. The premise was ridiculous on its face: the greatest swimmer who ever lived versus Shaquille O’Neal, a 7-foot-1, 325-pound NBA center whose relationship with water had always felt more comedic than competitive. The race was framed as a novelty—lanes adjusted, handicaps applied, math involved—but once they hit the water, none of that

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