You have a good point. Each swimming style benefits greatly from the other, and his relay victories are really him just doing the same thing he did to win another race. i don't think there are any other fields where there are 8 such closely related things to attempt. On a side note, i knew a mike phelps in high school. I'd say he was kind of a meat head, but i think it might just be we had one bad incident that soured all future interaction/opinions of eachother.
The greatest athlete would have to be the best at swimming, running (long distance and sprint), biking, gymnastics, one or two martial arts, skiing, luge, ice skating, dance, weight lifting, basketball, soccer, cricket, marksmanship, and tenis before you could really say with any certainty he's the best athlete.
the greatest olympian would have to be determined by some factoring of number of medals, diversity of events, etc. 8 golds in one years probably still would put mr. phelps in pretty good standing.
Of course Chuck Norris has received the platinum metal in every event for every Olympics ever. They mail them to him in advance, lest he show up in person to claim them.
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