>Well, my rant of the day is that I am tired of listening / reading / viewing everywhere that Michael Phelps is the best athlete of the history (sometimes Olympic is omitted) for all the Gold medals he got, and I think that is just a pile of BS. How can the best boxer / judoca / football player / basketball player etc etc will ever win more than one medal when they have only one fricking chance? Furthermore, why in hell there are so many competitions for some sports, like swimming? Why don't they just consolidate all those categories (like 50m, 100m, 200m, 400m, 800m 1010.192398m) into one competition to see who is the best swimmer, and then give them just one Gold damn medal. Like in sailing, give points according to their position in each race and the one that has in the end less point is the winner

Would you do the same in track? After all, they have races from 100m up to the marathon.

Tamar