Am I alone in completely not caring about this moron, I mean he swims well I guess, that's not interesting whatsoever. I mean they give him like 50 gold medals b/c he's the fastest in 200m 400m 600m 800m etc. etc. I mean at a certain point shouldn't you just get 1 gold medal for being the fastest swimmer anyway. But even if he's the best swimmer of all time who gives a shit, who watches swimming, I mean unless it's a hot chick swimming who cares. I can honestly say I've never been interested in seeing a dude swim no matter how good he is at it. There are so many "sports" at the Olympics that are out of the twilight zone there's one where they ride on horseback then shot an arrow, I mean wtf is that, at what point does a person fully commit to being the best horseback bow and arrow shooter and make it their life goal to win gold at it. Also if you win gold in badminton or some crazy ass equestrian sport or that downhill skiing crap where you shoot at targets as you ski can you really feel like a champion, I mean weren't you just the best b/c it was you versus the only other guy on the planet who's interested in that sport, I mean yea granted you beat him so you are technically the best but c'mon a gold medal is a lil overboard imo.
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I don't but he does make 5 million a year because people do unlike those arrowing shooting guysComment -
We'll 8 goldmedals would add nicely to the total USA count.Comment -
not watching this event,i dont really care for phelpsComment -
he is good brosComment -
swimming.Comment -
I'm not into swimming too much but he was ****in impressive.Comment -
I hearby nominate this for Understatement of the Year Post!Originally posted by bettilimbroke999
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I understand that he is the best swimmer in the world or of all time or whatever, I really just dont care. Watching swimming is about as exciting as watching fishing, I mean I understand they are going to give him 200 gold medals for the 200 different ways he swam back and forth in the pool, but it's really the worst spectator sport ever.Comment -
bettil, its the same thing with Lance Armstrong, who cares about bikers really? Since he's been gone look how much we care here in the states about the Tour De France...
Whether you like the sport or not, you have to respect that he is the greatest swimmer of all time and a tremendous athlete, and he is representing our country in overpowering fashion.
I'm with you... I "don't care"... but you have to respect the hell out of him and there is no reason to hate. Just ignore.Comment -
Bad example, I never cared about the tour de france either, what am I gonna watch a guy riding a bike all day, I mean I was impressed that Armstrong was that good but I didn't watch a second of it, I'm impressed that Phelps is that swims fast but I just don't care enough to watch it, it's like figure skating, I know there's a lot of work they put in to be the best but the end result is just some chick skating and jumping and spinning, been done to death, just repeat over and over of the same thingComment -
I don't like any Olympian!
Olympic contestant=guy or woman with a hobbie who's on scholarship in the form of using and collecting every government subsidy known to mankind from the age of 8 to late 20's.If a guy likes shooting pool and is good at it,shouldn't the government take some tax dollars and make you a nice rec room at home?How about if a kid is a video game whiz,shouldn't the government provide you with a training pavilion with all the best screens,games and even doctors to make sure your hands are fit and healthy.
Olympians are nothing but parasites!
It showed that Phelps enrolled in Michigan University just to use the training facilities there.These people are about as far from being true amateurs as Brett Favre is.Comment -
This is a great thread. I could give a sht about Michael Phelps. If he wants to impress me he should backstroke from China to the US.Comment -
I give a shit because he's representing USA. Swimming is way more fun to watch than a lot of those lame ass "sports" that are in the olympics.
If it weren't in the olympics would I follow swimming? Probably not. He's an American though and I'm glad our relay team beat those shit talking Frenchies
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****ing frenchies, they had it in the bag and could have ended this Phelps 8 nonsense, it's boring news nowComment -
that ****ing celebration from phelps was impressive !!!!!!!
i dont think he expected that grandpa to come back and win for him..Comment -
I want his babies.Comment -
Frenchies.
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you could say this about any olympian. What if every olympian actually spent their time to help society better itself instead of working on their swimming skills/volley ball skills/ping pong skills 365 days a year?Originally posted by bettilimbroke999Comment -
I like the Olympics, but I just dont like swimming, I could care less if you are the fastest butterfly stroke, I mean what the fuk are you going to join the pro swim tour?Comment -
shawn johnson is the bestComment -
i wonder if Swim Fan is Phelps' favorite movieComment -
not meComment -
What's up with Phelps screaming, I mean it's fukin swimming, you are the fastest guy at doing laps in the pool, no need to go insane about it. I wish they'd drop a shark in the pool, now that I would watch. The only sports ppl ever dominate are gymnastics or swimming or figure skating, I mean c'mon does anybody really care that he is the fastest 400m AND 600m AND 800m swimmer, I mean doesn't that kind of go without saying that if you are beating me for 2 laps in the pool that you're prolly gonna beat me for 4, is it really necessary to give you another gold medal every couple lapsComment -
I'm impressed by his domination but that's a funny post.Originally posted by bettilimbroke999
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Phelps must be Gay swimmers usually are
Swimming is not a real sportComment -
You'd still make a move on him to plow him in the ass.Originally posted by jjgold
JJ, Phelps is a better athlete than you were or ever will be pal.Comment -
nobody is more dominant in any sport today. not even tiger. imo, phelps is the best athlete while tiger is on the benchComment -
I used to swim competitively and it is one of the most difficult sports to become good at, let alone dominate. What Phelps is doing and will do is history in the making. It's like watching Hershiser's scoreless inning streak, Dimaggio's consecutive games hit streak, Kobe's 81 pts, etc.
Basically, it'll be talked about for as long as Olympics lives on.Comment -
He gets pub for 5 days every 4 years. Most people care more about what Tiger Woods ate for breakfast.Comment -
No one even knows who the guy is
Swimming is an obscure sport therefore you will never know how good he is unless more people played like Golf where everyone and their brother has tried and failed. That is what Makes Tiger the greatest everComment -
Disagree completely, in actuality it is prolly a hard sport to be the best at (hell what sport is easy to be the best at?) but it is probably the easiest sport to dominate, if you are the fastest swimmer you are simply going to swim faster than your opponents every race and will be a Secretariat like favorite to win every event you enter which is why he's going to win 8 in a row and beat Spitz (naturally a swimmer as well) record of 7 gold, btw Spitz said if they had 50m freestyle he would've easily won 8 as well and he is sure Phelps will win 8. Phelps racks up gold in every single event he enters just like all the best swimmers in history, how can you say this is a tough sport to dominate when it's been dominated every Olympics?Originally posted by daggerkobeComment -
Golf is by far the hardest sport to dominate
Nothing even closeComment -
sync diving is pretty fckign hard
GUO JING JINGComment -
Originally posted by bettilimbroke999
Swimming is hardly easy to dominate. It's not like running where you run the same way.... in swimming there are four distinct styles that must be mastered. Freestyle is nothing like the backstroke, the butterfly and the breatstroke, for example. He's not particularly good at backstroke and breaststroke which is why he has never medalled in them. So to say "just swim fast" is easier said than done.
Since before Spitz and after, there's probably been two swimmers that have dominated the sport. That's 2 in 30+ years. If it's so easy, wouldn't there have been more?????Comment
