Way too many events in swimming makes it possible for Phelps to win so many medals?

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I mean the objective should be to complete the course in the quickest time; not swim like a r****d in the quickest time. I noticed that Phelps is better at swimming like a r****d than he is at freestyle.

Also if Phelps is so great then why can't he win the blue ribbon swimming event - 100m freestyle. The winner of 100m freestyle is regarded as the fastest swimmer in the world. Don't get me started on the 50m freestyle. Phelps will never win that in his life.

So in conclusion Phelps is great at swimming like a r****d, but when you ask him to swim freestyle he is only great at one event: 200m freestyle. It is not like Phelps is a rookie either. This is his second olympics and he has yet to prove that he can win 100m and 50m freestyle - The events that test your pure speed.

Phelps has so many medals because swimming has so many medals available to win.

Michael Jordan greater than Phelps. Gretzsky greater than Phelps. Ali greater than Phelps. Carl Lewis greater than Phelps. Larissa Latana greater than Phelps. Steve Redgrave greater than Phelps. I could go and on.

Get rid of the butterfly, medley events and just leave them with the freestyle and Phelps wouldn't get as much attention. His only individual win would be 200m freestyle and other freestyle wins would be relay events where his teammates will bail his slow freestyle swimming *** out.

Phelps should enter the paralympics because he excels at doing things the retarded way.

Answer 1

Whoa, I guess you don't like Phelps. Just try to enjoy the whole event. We're supporting the athletes in spirit. The more medals USA wins, the better the feedback for all of us. I don't like volleyball, so, I never really pay attention to it. I just concentrate on the sports that I like and interested in. Go USA!

Answer 2

I respect Phelp's achievments but you are right on with your comments. I hear they will introduce a backward run and a quadriped run in the next Olympics. That should boost the number of track & field medals, especially for the Chinese, who have a stable of mutated athletes in the wings.

Answer 3

Phelps is a great and dedicated athlete. However, I do agree with this: "Phelps has so many medals because swimming has so many medals available to win." This is goddamn unfair. Either they should make more categories for other sports or remove at least half of swimming categories.

Answer 4

The only "r****d" I see is YOU.

You just insulted soooo many swimmers that have won golds in every other event besides the 100m freestyle.

If you had things your way, there would only be a half day Olympics.... One round in Boxing, One round in Judo, 100m sprint, 100m freestyle, how short would cycling be? One quarter of basketball... Oh, what about High jump... I guess you'd get rid of Pole vaulting since it's not "pure" jumping... What about hurdles, that's must be retarded in your view? Where was I?

Oh, right... YOU'RE a "r****d"!

If nothing else, I got a good laugh from reading your obsurd remarks.

LMAO!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 5

"Get rid of the butterfly, medley events and just leave them with the freestyle..."

Well swimming is not only freestyle. It has those events for a reason.

he just won the 100m freestyle by 1/100th of a second. He is good, he wins medals, stop over analyzing, stop hating, get over it =)

Answer 6

I agree with your overall point but not in the obnoxious way your wrote it.  Calling Phelps a r****d is pretty lame because obviously the man is a gifted swimmer.

I agree that swimming dishes out medals more than almost any other sport so that's not a good enough reason to consider Phelps the "greatest olympian of all time".  That's just NBC's phrase to push ratings.  If you've heard what Phelps has to say on the subject i'm sure you'd be impressed.  Not once has he ever said "I want to be the greatest olympian ever".  He's only said time and time again "I want to be the fastest swimmer I can ever be" and I respect that because what he is doing is paying respect to the other olympic sports that don't offer the opportunity to win as many medals.  Maybe the best olympic athlete is really a marathon runner?  Could a marathon runner possibly run 8 marathons in one Olympics?  No.

I'm impressed that you mentioned Steve Redgrave.  He's a guy who won a gold medal in each of his 5 olympics!  He stayed at the top of his game for 20 years while the competition got faster and younger and still couldn't beat him.  That's a candidate for "greatest olympian of all time".  But seriously how can you determine who wins that title.  It's impossible.  The best you can do is argue who is the best in a given sport and in swimming that is clearly Phelps.  Name another swimmer who has been more dominant?  Don't forget, he's only 23 which means he'll compete at least through 2012.

Answer 7

I couldn't agree with you more.  Basically the 100 meter freestyle is the the SHOWCASE event in swimming and Phelps could never ever win that. Traditionally, the winner of that race is cosidered the fastest and best swimmer in the world.  The great Mark Spitz actually won that event among his seven golds in 1972 in world record time. so to me Spitz is still the best swimmer of all time.  

They really need to redesign the olympics medal distribution among the different sports.

It makes no sense that a tennis player duels hard for 7-8 days long through several matches and ends up winning just one medal, or that a whole basketball team plays many games over many days, and then gets ONE medal for the whole team.  they have only gold medal for so many players in basketball or soccer, and have over 40 in swimming. IT MAKES NO SENSE.

Answer 8

Phelp's talent is endurance and his events are much more difficult. Short races are easier to win and don't require the intense training.

Answer 9

Me too; I think it is ridiculous how one person can earn 8 medals just for swimming a couple times, while teams with 6 or 11 or whatever players have to play many games to win a single medal.

I am really tired of seeing Phelps' face every time I turn on the freaking TV.

They should cut down the number of competitions for track and field and swimming. Then we would see the U.S. dominance crumble.

Answer 10

This is the most ignorant, close-minded, uninformed statement I have ever seen on YA!

Swimming is more than just about speed. If you knew anything about swimming, you would've known that. It's just like running - there are shorter distances where speed is more of a factor, and longer events where you need better endurance.

Yes, there are a lot of available swimming medals, only because very few people are good enough at so many events (like Phelps is) to win as many as he has.

By calling Phelps retarded because he is not as good at the sprint events is like calling every other swimmer who specializes in endurance events retarded.

I hope you get bashed by multiple other users for your stupidity. :D

Answer 11

i agree you are the r****d.

He is a talented guiy and devots his life to swimming