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Originally Posted by Strange Famous
Well... the options I listed were
1 - The Lightening Bolt
2 - Michael Phelps
3 - Chinese women's coxless 4's
4 - Ben Ainslie
5 - GB cycling team
6 - Kenenisa Bekele
7 - Nastia Liukin
8 - Yelena Isinbayeva
9 - Tirunesh Dibaba (a criminally understated achievment)
To me Bolt takes it by a long way.
Phelps ot 8 golds sure, but if Usain could enter the 100M, the 110M, 120M while wearing a hat, the 130 when you start from a standing position, etc etc.. he could win as many medals as they could make up...
What Phelps did was great I suppose, but to be honest I dont think he brought 1/10th of he excitement to the event that Usain Bolt did... and I really do think its kind of a joke to have 4 or 5 different swimming races over the same distance when they swim in a different style.
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I think the 120m wearing a hat would be fascinating! We could have Mexico wear sombreros, American could wear cowboy hats or baseball hats, the French berets, of course, it would be great! Seriously,i know what you mean about so many swimming events but I guess it all comes down to both Bolt and Phelps winning every race they competed in. Honestly the best performance was the final leg of the men's (swimming) 400m relay where the US narrowly beat the French. I guess if I was cynical, I would say the best performance was really the Chinese government saying that those gymnasts were really 16 years old with a straight face, and then being indignant when they were questioned about it.