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There are other measures of dominance. For instance, Bob Beamon set a record at the Olympics that stood for more than 30 years.
Ledecky laps the field in the 1500m (she also has 13 medals so far). No one is competitive with her.
My bad Olympics opinion is that you should only be allowed one medal per games. Let more people have fun Michael, damn
It’s kind of skewed with some sports having several events (swimming, gymnastics) where one person can earn many medals and many that are just one unique event.
Interesting to see some variations in the mix though, like 3 on 3 basketball.
Also 8 of his medals were with the sharkskin swimsuit which was immediately banned as it conferred an absolutely immense advantage to those wearing it.
Basically everyone was wearing it. Everyone else in the pool was wearing it too.
Everyone else didn’t start wearing it and training with it at the same time that the sponsored players did. The Japanese players started using it the month before because they were 100% sure they would lose without it. Phelps lost to a German the next year when he wasn’t wearing the suit.
Do you think he wouldn’t have won without the suit?
He lost the next year to a German wearing a similar suit while he wasn’t, so yes I think it’s highly likely that he wouldn’t have had the dominance he did with the suit if he wasn’t allowed to wear it. But of course there’s no way to know.
and that’s exactly why he doesn’t deserve it.
Brother you take eight of his medals away he still has 20 medals. You fucking clowns trying to trash Michael Phelps. My God.
Nobody is trying to trash Michael Phelps. This post is literally a comparison of medal counts.
relax meng, it’s just a meme.
Just swim faster than him, duhhhhh
I’m almost more impressed that 7 people apparently beat Phelps. Guessing those were mostly relays?
Gonna have to add Simone Biles to that list
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I guess the Americans are out trying to huff some compium for their current standings in the Olympics
Wow, 3 Chinese top-medal-earners are what it takes to match 1 Phelps.
Incredible.
Edit: It seems only one third of the sino Olympians made it here to downvote me.
Stay mad, Phelps whopped your asses so hard. While he did that he was high as fuck on that kush. Bong rips for days, then he took his medals home and criticized his government (as he is FREE to do).
The olympics are a circus that comes to town so they can rob you while you are distracted by the bullshit.
shutup jerkface
It took Montreal 30 years to pay off the debt incurred for hosting the Olympics. Host cities build vast infrastructure that is essentially disposed of after the games because there is no possible use for it absent a world event that is not going to return. Paris brags about being the “greenest Olympics ever,” though clearly they are not including the vast environmental impact of inducing millions of humans to migrate across the world releasing megatons of CO2, and temporarily housing them in a place that cannot support them except in a massively unsustainable manner.
