I dont think that the 200 was effortless, he put everything into it and threw himself at the line. The 100 was nothing for him though.You can't dangle the bait like that & then lift it away! It's inhumane!!
Anyway, Bolt for me, regardless. Became the world's fastest human being with (to paraphrase that great line from Chariots of Fire) the apparent effortlessness of a god.
Had anyone else ran the 200 in 19.30 into a 0.09 (iirc) head wind. Dont think so.Phelps, just.
The fact that Phelps did something no-one has ever done before
Same goes for Bolt and the above.and isn't likely to (unless he does it again himself) in the near future was the over-riding factor for me.
what bolt did has never been done before either...winning the sprint triple, all of it in world record times...Phelps didn't have the charisma of Bolt, but what Phelps did has never been done before and there's a good chance it won't ever be done again. So Phelps for me.
I was excluding the world/olympic records, because both guys broke world records with ease. People have won 3 golds on the track before, and it's likely to happen again. No-one has ever won 8 golds at the one olympics (and that is far less likely to happen again), and no-one has ever won as many gold medals as Michael Phelps, period.I dont think that the 200 was effortless, he put everything into it and threw himself at the line. The 100 was nothing for him though.
Had anyone else ran the 200 in 19.30 into a 0.09 (iirc) head wind. Dont think so.
Same goes for Bolt and the above.
Betty Cuthbert, 1956.what bolt did has never been done before either...winning the sprint triple, all of it in world record times...
well the commentators were saying it has never been done before, don't know whether they were specifically talking about men...Betty Cuthbert, 1956.
200 & 4x100 were definitely WR. I know she set a record in the 100m, not sure if it was world or olympic though.
I am sure that is a great achievement but what Phelps achieved hasn't been done either ever in Olympics. No one has won 8 Gold medals in a single Olympic and all of that by breaking Olympic Records in each of the event (7 WR and 1 OR).what bolt did has never been done before either...winning the sprint triple, all of it in world record times...
i know and i acknowledge that, look at the post i was replying to...in any case, fraz beats the both of them pretty easily...I am sure that is a great achievement but what Phelps achieved hasn't been done either ever in Olympics. No one has won 8 Gold medals in a single Olympic and all of that by breaking Olympic Records in each of the event (7 WR and 1 OR).
The expert speaketh.Two awesome surnames for the record.
Pretty ordinary beep test, itbt.Apparently Bolt was running 10.3 in high school.