Micheals Phelps is great, but best ever, come on
 

After watching the olympics this year and hearing all the accolades for Phelps, I was thinking how many swimming events are there. What it boils down to is he is a really fast swimmer and there happened to be 8 different events centered around that. Calling him greatest althlete ever (mostly by Americans) is kindof ridiculous, yeah I now he useless different strokes but big whoop.

If there was eight different running events isn't there a good chance Bolt would have probably won them all. But if ur a really fast runner u got a couple of events max u can compete in. Just putting that into perspective Phelps is great, no where near greatest. It would basically be the the same as have running events for 40m, 45m , 50m etc and one guy winning them all, just my two cents though....

so who's the best ever

37 Reasons Michael Phelps is Better than Chuck Norris

1. Michael Phelps isn't like a fish, a fish is like Michael Phelps

2. When Michael Phelps falls in water, Michael Phelps doesn't get wet. Water gets Michael Phelps

3. Michael Phelps doesn't breathe, he holds air hostage

4. Michael Phelps wasn't born he was hatched

5. Michael Phelps can eat out a mermaid

6. When you say "no one's perfect", Michael Phelps takes this as a personal insult

7. Michael Phelps counted to infinity twice while doing the breast stroke

8. Michael Phelps can no longer shower because water is afraid of him

9. When Michael Phelps looks in the mirror nothing appears. There can never be a second Michael Phelps

10. Bigfoot takes pictures of Michael Phelps

11. On the Asian market, Michael Phelps' urine is worth $400 per fluid ounce

12. Michael Phelps can dribble a football

13. The Great Wall of China was originally created to keep Michael Phelps out. It failed miserably

14. Michael Phelps can make water run uphill

15. Michael Phelps can divide by zero

16. When you Google 'Michael Phelps losing' you get no results because it just doesn't happen

17. Phelps once punched a hole thru a shark just to see down the ocean

18. If by some incredible space-time paradox, Michael Phelps would ever swim against himself, he'd win. Period.

19. Phelps doesn't sweat, he drips chlorine

20. Michael Phelps recently had the idea to sell his urine as a canned beverage. We know this beverage as Red Bull

21. If at first you don't succeed, you're not Michael Phelps

22. Michael Phelps was what Willis was talkin' about

23. Michael Phelps saved Gepetto from the whale

24. Michael Phelps can swim through ice

25. Every time Michael Phelps laughs, an undertow kills 3 orphans

26. When in China, Michael Phelps would order whole chickens but only eat their souls…then do the breast stroke

27. Rappers no longer wear bling, they wear Michael Phelps

28. You can find a pot of Phelps at the end of the rainbow

29. There's an order to the universe: space, time, Michael Phelps.... Just kidding, Michael Phelps is first every time

30. People no longer go swimming, they go phelpsing

31. Contrary to popular belief, Phelps actually parted the Red Sea with his freestyle medley

32. Water would rather jump to its death than be near Michael Phelps, hence waterfalls

33. As a child, Phelps didn't wear water wings, water wings wore Michael Phelps

34. As polar ice caps continue to melt, humans will begin to evolve to adjust to a world of water. Conclusion: Phelps is from the future

35. Phelps taught Aquaman how to swim

36. Hurricane Phelps is a sign of the apocalypse; it makes Katrina look like a muddy puddle

37. Michael Phelps' sperm backstrokes

A side note:

Here?s the list of most gold medals won in a single Games:

8. Michael Phelps, USA, aquatics (2008)

7. Mark Spitz, USA, aquatics (1972)

6. Kristin Otto, East Germany, aquatics (1988)

6. Vitaly Scherbo, Unified Team, gymastics (1992)

In theory only these events are the ones where you can win more than 5 golds.

I'm guessing this is why the call him the greatest...

Best ATHLETE ever?

Never heard about that before. Are americans really saying that?

Oh i see. Canada only won 3 golds. :1orglaugh

I do really appreciate what he has done but I also agree and not only that I don't think he is the best olympian. Maybe the best Olympic swimmer but how can you compare across the events. Steven Redgrave won five gold medals for rowing at five consecutive Olympics. There weren't the same number of races each Olympics for him to win but he stayed the best in his sport for five Olympics. I don't see how either could be fairly judged against the other.

I think they are saying best olympian ever.

Lucky Americans to have someone like him. :upsidedow

This is what the american media does.

And it works.


Phelps has won 40 golds in addition to his other medals.

He's the greatest swimmer (so far)

Greatest athlete? That's a bit much.

Who's calling Phelps the greatest athlete ever?

The media.. and then people who are just kinda dumb go along with it and promote the idea and repeat it..

Which is fantastic and surely makes him a great swimmer. A rower would never have the chance to win that many golds because there aren't that many races to win them in. You have to respect being the best in your sport for 20 years.

Well, most people get a life after 2 olympics. :thumbsup

Actaully I did a search and it seems he didn't row alone. Right? or am I wrong?

Yah but.. ahh nm I suggest you read Phelps wiki... You suggested someone that is definitely not a greater athlete than Phelps...

don't get me wrong.. I don't give a fuck..

Exactly :thumbsup

Part of a team..pairs and fours...as is how the sport works but with him being the consistent member of all those teams. Again, my point wasn't to scream that one was better than the other but that I don't see how people in different sports can be compared against each other when what stands for accomplishment is different in different sports.

I say he causes global cooling.

franks mad cause phelps has more gold medals than Canada has.

Look he is FAR from the greatest athlete ever-- but close to one of the best Olympians ever. (in terms of winning more gold, which is a pretty dumb bar to weigh someone on)

I give him alot of credit. he didnt just win these events- he roasted the competition.