The Olympics: Beijing 2008

[Animeniax]

Quite an achievement by Phelps. One caveat, 2 of his golds were team events, so imagine how bad it would have sucked to not get the 8th gold medal because someone else on the relay team messed up that last race.

I'm already tired of hearing people call him the greatest athlete ever. He's perhaps the greatest Olympic swimmer ever because his body is made for swimming, but that doesn't mean he'd excel at other sports.

edit: what's with the pseudo-mod action, Abdula? Without the discussion of hot Olympic chicks, this thread would have died already.

[ChaosK]

Uh, you guys sure know how to derail a thread.

Beijing 2008 Olympic chicks is still Beijing 2008 Olympics.

Anyway so Phelps did it. Any thoughts?

He did do it...didn't really shock me.

Quite an achievement by Phelps. One caveat, 2 of his golds were team events, so imagine how bad it would have sucked to not get the 8th gold medal because someone else on the relay team messed up that last race.

Yeah, the thing that kinda irked me was that all the commentators spoke as if the team was swimming for Phelps, with comments such as "And Jason Lezak with an incredible anchor leg giving the gold to Phelps!" These swimmers are all there for themselves and they should all be recognized individually for their achievement(s). Also, unless they're swimming in a relay, I'm pretty sure these guys are rivals most of the time.

I'm already tired of hearing people call him the greatest athlete ever. He's perhaps the greatest Olympic swimmer ever because his body is made for swimming, but that doesn't mean he'd excel at other sports.

True but he has successfully made the biggest achievement in Olympic history.

One thing did surprise me though as NBC ran a little bit of the interview with Phelps's mom before the relay; I had no idea Phelps had ADHD (I don't really pay attention to Phelps unless it's the Olympics) and I just think it's pretty incredible he won eight gold medals in spite of that.