The potential for swimmers was generally quite high. It was a sport where the taller the athletes were, the more advantages they had. Tall people usually had excellent arms that they could use to speed up as they pushed through the water. And when they reached the finish line, the people with longer arms could touch the line quicker as well. However, it might be difficult for those people who were too tall to turn their bodies into streamlines. The resistance in the water might be greater for them. This meant that the people who were too tall were not born to be swimmers.
On the national swimming team, all the male athletes were around 1.85 meters to 2 meters. And the female athletes were more than 1.70 meters. Some of them even reached 1.80 meters. Feifei Yu, for example, was 1.70 meters. She could only be considered a short girl on the national swimming team.
