Columnist disses Phelps, slams swimming

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I guess controversy sells ... "Track and field is so much more physically demanding ..." Michael Phelps is not the greatest Olympic athlete in history
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  • For a quick reality check rewatch Phelps following the 4x100 relay. Nothing wrong with it at all but hardly "calm, cool and collected and non-obtrusive". Now, point me to Bolt taunting anyone, I watched all his events and didn't see it. Bolt was a bit over the top, and a bit goofy, but we have certainly had swimmers who have acted the same way(anyone remember Gary Hall Jr.) Bolt is good, Phelps is good, as are a bunch of these Olympians. The men's gymnastic's team was suppose to do nothing after those injuries, and "all" they got was the bronze, but what an accomplishment. So silly to compare, and instead, just be inspired by the lot of them.
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  • For a quick reality check rewatch Phelps following the 4x100 relay. Nothing wrong with it at all but hardly "calm, cool and collected and non-obtrusive". Now, point me to Bolt taunting anyone, I watched all his events and didn't see it. Bolt was a bit over the top, and a bit goofy, but we have certainly had swimmers who have acted the same way(anyone remember Gary Hall Jr.) Bolt is good, Phelps is good, as are a bunch of these Olympians. The men's gymnastic's team was suppose to do nothing after those injuries, and "all" they got was the bronze, but what an accomplishment. So silly to compare, and instead, just be inspired by the lot of them.
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