Law prof on Olympic coverage: "This headline is a metaphor for basically the entire world"

[GaYellowDawg]

49. That's your argument?

It was the swimsuit?

His career has been built by sustained excellence over four Olympic games, not just one. Phelps is the only swimmer in history to qualify for any event in 5 Olympics. He's the only swimmer in history to win an individual event four times running. But hey, if someone wanted to put forth a completely spurious argument and put an asterisk beside the 2008 Olympics, then fine, let's do that. Without the 2008 Olympics:

- Phelps has 20 medals. More than anyone else in history.
- Phelps has 18 gold medals. More than anyone else in history. Double the next best.
- Phelps has 16 individual medals. More than anyone in history.
- Phelps has 8 individual golds. More than anyone else in history.

So you can pretty much stop it with the swimsuit argument. Phelps was at his prime in the 2008 Olympics. And, because you wanted to pose a deceptive argument, you neglected to mention that all the other medal contenders had the suit, too. If they'd all been swimming in the suits they wore this year, Phelps would still have walked away with 8 golds. Oh, and by the way, Phelps set the world record in the 100m butterfly without the suit in 2009, set the world record in the 200m without the suit in 2009, and holds the eight fastest times ever recorded in the 400m individual medley. There has never been a greater swimmer, and never a greater Olympian.

The fact that you want to put an asterisk by his name because you're whiny about a headline is simply pathetic.