Buffalo Boy's Blog

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He did it. Im speechless too. What more can you say that hasn't been said? I will take it to the point that this guy maybe the greatest athlete ever....yes that includes Gretzky, Lemeiux, Montana, Jordan, Woods and Mays. He is the greatest athlete of his time, period.

He finishes these games with 8 golds in one Olympics, 7 of those were world records. He now has 16 medals total for his career and with New York as the destination for 2012 you have to seriously put him down for 20 career medals easily and probably more gold.

Phelps in this Olympics has dominated, been a little lucky and gotten by with a little help from his friends (Jason Lezak). He has in essence, changed the sport of swimming forever. He has set a benchmark that no other Olympic athlete will measure up to anytime soon.

He like Gretzky, Lemeiux, Jordan, Woods and Montana has dominated his sport like no other, only I would argue after having been a swimmer myself for 10 years and a coach for close to 8 years, needed more endurance, strength and mental toughness than any of the other so called greats to achieve what he did this past week. He had 7 other swimmers chasing him down in every single final event for something that is so coveted, more than any other prize in any other sport...Olympic gold.

Michael Phelps until someone does something equally as spectacular is the greatest athlete of all time....period.