Phelps

Anyone else bored with all the hype over the supposed greatest Olympic athlete ever?

Perhaps each race of the sailing event should have medals.

When Phelps has won Gold at 5 Olympics in a row like Redgrave then he will be the greatest.

Hhe's clearly the best swimmer of all time but they have too many medal opportunities.

The Boxing anomoly is due to their many World governing bodies- there's an Amateur one, and at least three Proffesional ones. With the whole games being nominally amatuer, it's the amatuer governing body that rules, and you can only go the one-way between the two. There's eleven events, for men only

For other sports, there's just a single unified governing body, allowing pros, amateurs and those in the grey area between to compete. Remember, football and tennis aren't the only sports where this is the case- what's Ben Ainslie's job again?

They've just been talking about the paucity of events in the track cycling- they've got seven events for men, and three for women. Further, for those seven mens events, which are a mix of individual and team sprint and endurance races, they're allowed a maximum of eleven riders. So it's not just sailing that's rather limited in numbers.

There are fifteen Weightlifting events

There are fifteen shooting events. That's a sport where the competitors can be fat blokes wearing jeans.

Do not try and comprehend the whys and wherefores of Olympic events. It makes little sense.

Yes I agree Contender 541, I really want to see phelps do well now, he doesn't come across as an arrogant whatsit either so thats always a winner in my opinion!

Yep, fantastic result. The greatest swimmer.

All he has do do now is win gold at the next 4 games and he can be considered the greatest Olympic ever.

Until then I still say Sir Steve is the man ...

An Unseen camera angle of Phelp's victory ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhjwnsVUeto&e