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Originally Posted by troutman
Not anti-US - it is anti-holycrap they give out way too many medals in swimming.
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No kidding. Bolt would have 8 medals too if track gave out medals for 50 metres, 150 metres, running backwards, sidestepping, 4 X 200 relay.....
Phelps won in a pool that broke world records in almost every race. Not just his. Bolt also set the world record running into a head wind while obliterating his opponents. Phelps would have to equal that in a wave pool.
Also too Bolt only started to run the 100 metres seriously this year. Phelps has been training his strokes and his distances for at least 7-8 year. That would be like Phelps taking on the breaststroke or the 1500 and winning gold in those.
Phelps did an awesome job in swimming and is the greatest swimmer ever. But he is not the main story of Beijing. You can't really blame Americans for thinking Phelps is God. That NBC propaganda machine is overwhelming.