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Originally Posted by Eagle Eye
But he is/was the main story of the olympics, I bet just as many networks and publications covered his story as Bolt has (Bolt is just more fresh as it happened yesterday).
I love how everyone compares multiple swim styles to 'Side stepping' or walking backwards, and any way who is to say that if those events even existed that he could win them (Phelps proved that he could).
As other posters mentioned track has multiple events that take different skills as swimming has, to me Phelps proved that he can win multiple styles of events.
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I agree, there seems like there are a lot of people on this board who seem to minimizing and trashing Phelps. The fact is you have to go back to Mark Spitz in 1972 to see anything comparable. He is appears to be in his sport, someone who is at the Gretzky, Pele, Jordan, Tiger Woods level. Simply an extraordinary and exceptional athlete that rarely comes along, a pleasure to watch that goes beyond the sport!
Usain Bolt, although certainly outstanding and heading that way, will have to establish some sort of longevity to get to that level.