So what?DY_nasty said:Swimming records are broken all.de.time
Phelps competed in numerous strokes, which are all very different from one another. Running is running; I know there are strategic considerations for different distances, but Bolt isn't not doing anything DIFFERENTLY. He just does one thing, and he's fucking amazing at it.
Phelps' accomplishments are astonishing; dominating so many different events at a single Olympic Games, the epic finishes, the sheer and utter agony of competing in so many qualifiers, heats, and races, back-to-back-to-back. Bolt blew the field away, and was just as amazing, in my opinion.
But calling Phelps a pre-school tetherball athlete compared to Bolt? X26, shut the fuck up.