Usain Bolt is such a phenom. He destroys his competition while Phelps has to grind it out. By virtue of this Bolt is better. Lets hear what you all have to say.
Usain Bolt is such a phenom. He destroys his competition while Phelps has to grind it out. By virtue of this Bolt is better. Lets hear what you all have to say.
Phelps competes in many more events than Usain. If he only trained for and swam his best two, we'd see more dominating individual events from him.
I disagree. What Phelps does is the equivalent of Bolt doing races of the same distances while running, hopping, cartwheeling, and running backwards. Bolt is a better athlete than Phelps, which isn't to say that Phelps isn't one of the best in the world either.
More people can run than swim - its Bolt - or go to letsswimwearingsuitswhichremoveanyenjoymentthereisinthesport for another biased viewpont
i agree completely with what you said. bolt is a better SPRINTER than phelps is a swimmer. however if you change one word this becomes a whole different argument. if you were to ask is bolt a better RUNNER than phelps is a swimmer, i would say probably not. they have both excelled and hold world records in the "sprint" events in each sport, but what separates phelps is that he has won on the highest level in the 400 meter distance. that would be the equivalent of bolt winning championships in the 800 and mile. phelps is able to use his aerobic systems better than bolt. so, until bolt decides to train himself for longer distances, i give the "better at their general sport" award to phelps.
A lot of swimmers compete at different distances. Nobody in athletics has or could win the 100m & 800m at the same Olympics
At the need of the day its futile to compare different sports
Phelps is a supreme competitor I watched both those last gasp victories - amazing
Think of it this way. Two years after Phelps retires, his world records will be broken and then broken again. How long will it be before somebody besides Bolt himself breaks his records?
As a former college (post college as well) runner AND swimmer, I can categorically say Phelps is better.... he does more events, over many diverse distances, usually wins, dominates his primary events (fly, free and IM). He also averages 6 to 8 training miles IN THE POOL/day, its doubtful Bolt even does that much on the track. Bolt is a sprinter, maybe be able to go up to the 400, possibly the LG but will never have the range that Phelps does. Even among swimmers, Phelps is a phenom, the only one to have surpassed Spitz.
Phelps has a wider range of strokes/distances. Bolt would have to open up his repertoire to include the 100m Skip, sack race, 3 legged race, etc.
Which, I believe he could still win in WR time.
Swimming is harder than running. Phelps is superior. Case Closed.
It's already been proven that anyone can run, a 2 year old can run. A lot of people would drown though. Swimming is brutally difficult to get good at. I used to swim ~30k a week and now I run ~170k a week... because it's easier than swimming. And if you disagree, you haven't put time in a pool.
Phelps was a Olympic swimmer at 16, Bolt was a world class Junior at 17.
Thanks Yuppy, that is what I said. DID YOU NOTICE I SAID CASE CLOSED. That means it's OVER, FINISHED! You don't say shit after it. The case is closed. STFU!
Yuppy wrote:
It's already been proven that anyone can run, a 2 year old can run. A lot of people would drown though. Swimming is brutally difficult to get good at. I used to swim ~30k a week and now I run ~170k a week... because it's easier than swimming. And if you disagree, you haven't put time in a pool.
You any good though. Why would you run that far for nothing?
trollism wrote:
Yuppy wrote:It's already been proven that anyone can run, a 2 year old can run. A lot of people would drown though. Swimming is brutally difficult to get good at. I used to swim ~30k a week and now I run ~170k a week... because it's easier than swimming. And if you disagree, you haven't put time in a pool.
You any good though. Why would you run that far for nothing?
Babies are born with a swim reflex.
lemons4u wrote:
Babies are born with a swim reflex.
That is true. My mother tells me I could swim before I could walk.
well then if this is the case, then this means that Tree Hardy is a better athlete than phelps
Huh??? wrote:
As a former college (post college as well) runner AND swimmer, I can categorically say Phelps is better.... he does more events, over many diverse distances, usually wins, dominates his primary events (fly, free and IM). He also averages 6 to 8 training miles IN THE POOL/day, its doubtful Bolt even does that much on the track. Bolt is a sprinter, maybe be able to go up to the 400, possibly the LG but will never have the range that Phelps does. Even among swimmers, Phelps is a phenom, the only one to have surpassed Spitz.
One might make that assertion (and it would be a valid one) if Hardy had world records in all or most of the individual events that make up the decathelon....as Phelps does in the bulk of the swimming events he competes in.....but he does not.
BOLT is better sprinter than anybody is at doing anything. ie BOLT better SPRINTER than Jordan was at hoops or Monet was as an artist, Obama is as a President, Jesus was as a preacher, God was as a creator , etc.