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Originally Posted by transplant99
(RE: Phelps winning all his medals in just swimming)
I understand this sentiment...but I sure dont agree with it.
Different disciplines and distances...all of them. Doing the freestyle is so far different from doing the butterfly its hardly the same sport other than being done in water.
Im not sure why people think the pool is overloaded to help such a swimmer. Cant ANY swimmer from ANY nation do the same thing? Would we be saying the same thing if it was a Canadian breaking records left, right, and center?
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I'm hardly an expert in swimming, but this stuff about being anti-USA isn't the reason. I hung out with a bunch of Americans yesterday and the topic came up, and like some of those events like gymnastics, they give out alot of medals. Becky something won a gold or something in both winter and summer a couple years ago, I find that alot more impressive. Obviously Phelps is elite in swimming or whatever, and the multiple golds and WRs is pretty cool, but I find those competitors who are in many different events more impressive.