My Michael Phelps rant...

[Hector]

Look, I know he's a great athlete and all...but this current talk about him being the best Olympian ever is ludicrous and a slap in the face to true Olympic legends.

Swimmers have an unfair advantage over every other Olympic event...that sport is set up for one guy to win multiple times (look how many swimmers are out there with multiple medals)...just ask Mark Spitz...and a boatload of other swimmers. Phelps is a tremendous athlete, but the talk of 'Greatest Olympian EVAR!' is premature ejaculation from an increasingly sensationalist media. It's nice to have feel good stories, but swimming is slanted toward repeated individual success. For instance, how is a tennis player supposed to ever become a 'Greatest Olympian EVAR!'? They only just added doubles as an event, before it was just a one event type thing. How about rowers, sailors, or cyclists? How many different medals can you amass in those sports? Track and field is really where it's at, decathletes especially.

Give me a track and field competitor over any swimmer...starting with Jesse Owens (a true great Olympic hero)...he made Hitler take a dump in his pants. I am not an Olympic Historian, but how can you compare this type of feat (Phelps) to something like Jesse Owen winning in Berlin as a black athlete in front of Hitler? That was some otherworldy feat right there.

Also any decathlete shiats all over Phelps (his multiple medals don't mean squat).

Here's what a decathlete does:

Day 1

100 metres
Long jump
Shot put
High jump
400 metres


Day 2

110 metres hurdles
Discus throw
Pole vault
Javelin throw
1500 metres


Now that my friend...is a true Olympic badarse.


OK...rant over...

[Zemo]

Hmm... Well I agree and disagree...lol

[toys2cool]

I disagree , i think he is the best ever..I know he does more events then the average Olympian but he has 16 Golds! That will never be done again...He has proven to be the best swimmer ever and to be the best Olympian you have to have the medals to back it up and he's done it time and time again

Yes there are better and will be better athletes and heck it's harder to win a gold medal in a ton of events...but in the end he is the Greatest Olympian by far and I think "20 medals" speaks for itself

[Hector]

Swimming...come on...a flipper-cuffed quadriplegic blind dolphin can swim faster than Phelps...lol.

[Hector]

Ronda Rousey on Phelps...

"Michael Phelps needed his own private section of the club to be, like, private for him," Rousey said. "These NBA players over here are a bigger deal than this guy, and they're all hanging out with us. Hello, we're your teammates. We're not a bunch of groupies. Come hang out with us. Who the hell are you?"

"I don't like being somebody's teammate and being treated like I'm their groupie," Rousey said. "I didn't even want to go out of my way to go say hi to that guy. Get over yourself. All you do is swim. If someone slapped you every single time you jumped in the pool, then I'd have a little more respect, but I was a swimmer before I did this (expletive), so you can't tell me that swimming is 'OH MY GOD', because it's not."

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/gameon/post/2012/07/mma-star-ronda-rousey-blasts-michael-phelps-for-being-a-jerk/1#.UBr8BnAU5hA

[toys2cool]

Ronda's hot, but she's an annoying *****. when she has 20 medals then she can talk

[Hector]

[The Toyroom]

He makes for interesting television, that's all I care about...More power to him

[kingdom warrior]

Him in a pool vs a great White winner take all if he survives he's the Best ever.....Oh and Phelps must be bleeding a bit just to add to the drama.....

[Hector]

[Iron Mego]

It's more of a semantics issue. Instead of GREATEST, they should be saying MOST DECORATED. Greatest is a subjective term, and can be argued till the cows come. You cannot argue that he has won the most medals of any other Olympian. Of course, seeing as a number of those are from team events (the relays) it does get into a gray area in a way.

[Hector]

It's more of a semantics issue. Instead of GREATEST, they should be saying MOST DECORATED. Greatest is a subjective term, and can be argued till the cows come. You cannot argue that he has won the most medals of any other Olympian. Of course, seeing as a number of those are from team events (the relays) it does get into a gray area in a way.

Well said.

[jwyblejr]

Even though he's only got one,give me Kurt Angle over this guy any day of the week.

[toys2cool]

exactly...How do you defy who's the greatest of all time? it can't be stats like in Basketball (who's better Jordan with his numbers and championships or Bill Russell's 11 Championships ?) It's a mix of different events so you have to go with who has the most medals....

[Mikey]

Girls volleyball is the only event I watch - seriously