>"bolt is the greatest olympian ever"
'no'
>"bolt is the greatest olympian ever"
'no'
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Swimming gives gold just about every meter they can get.
It's shit.
If you take away all the bullshit swimming events Phelps would be on about 7.
>99999999999999999999 swimming events
>"oh, look, Michael Phelps has more golds than everyone"
>meme strokes
anyone can run. not everyone can swim.
both are on peds so who cares
>400m
>800m
>long jump
Too bad Bolt is to shit to branch out like Based Phelps did.
Why didn't Bolt do more running events?
too many swimming events
bolt literally hasn't been beaten. he is literally unbeatable, running 3 events for 3 years and having a perfect record.
no doubt phelps is the goat swimmer, but bolt is the goat olympian.
>200 different swimming events
>Phelps actually has Silvers and Bronzes
No nigga
Facts facts facts.
Options for Phelps:
Men's 50 Freestyle
Men's 100 Freestyle
Men's 200 Freestyle
Men's 400 Freestyle
Men's 1,500 Freestyle
Men's 100 Backstroke
Men's 200 Backstroke
Men's 100 Breaststroke
Men's 200 Breaststroke
Men's 100 Butterfly
Men's 200 Butterfly
Men's 200 Individual Medley
Men's 400 Individual Medley
Men's 4×100 Free Relay
Men's 4×200 Free Relay
Men's 4×100 Medley
Men's 10 Kilometres Marathon
Options for Bolt:
100m
200m
4x100m
Paavo Nurmi is the only clean athlete from that list so he's still the GOAT. Sorry yank bros.
If you adjust for inflation Phelps only has about 5
actually
>man who can run and swim wins golds in 4 different olympics
>man who can run, but can not swim wins gold in 3 different olympics
Pick one.
Bolt is likeable so more people will say he is the GOAT, if you did a poll Bolt would win.
Also, 100m is the headline event of the Olympics, nobody cares about your synchronized swimming guy or whatever gay sport he does.
>welfare sport golds
Felps is a meme. Bolt is a god
>Usain comes up to you and challenges you and he can beat you right there
>Phelps tries that shit you an you gotta go look for a pool
>Blyth Spartans scored more points than Man Utd last season, they're the better team!
>Felps
YOU HAVE TO GO BACK
>Options for Bolt
Translation:
>The only thing he is good at
100m is the flagship event of the olympics, swimming isn't that important
Yeah still Paavo Nurmi
You again
If you're gonna list 400m & 1500m freestyle for swimming, why not 400m & 800m on track?
Options for swimming 100 meter
Men's 100 Freestyle
Men's 100 Backstroke
Men's 100 Breaststroke
Men's 100 Butterfly
Men's 4×100 Free Relay
Men's 4×100 Medley
Options for running 100 meter
100m
maybe 110 meter hurdles
4x100m relay
Phelps can swim fast, Bolt can run fast.
If someone said to Bolt, "if you can run 100m and 200m while flapping your arms we'll give you another two medals," then it'd be comparable
100m,200m and relay are the main event for Olympics. Swimming isn't even in the top 10
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lmao
I know this hard for you to understand being an ameriswim and all
But those are actually different events that require different training, imagine that!
This
>man competes in almost 60 events and wins 22
>man competes in 10 events, gets injured in the first one and wins the next 9
Pick one.
>Freestyle
>DoggyStyle
>BreastStroke
>BackStroke
>Butterfly
Might as well make lime n' spoon, crawling, skipping, cartwheel and backflip racing an Olympic Sport.
Hurdles, long jump and triple jump are basically what you're describing.
>run fast and then do some different movements
you're an utter cretin
>Being literally retarded
The same goes for swimming
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USAIN HAS NEVER RUN A FULL MILE IN HIS LIFE
>people think adding events would change anything
>when Bolt is too lazy to train for the 400m as is
No.
bolt has more options
>10 trillion swimming events
>only a few running events for Bolt
Bolt is the GOAT
>likeable
Only if you are a classless nigger like him.
Phelps doesn't even have the fastest freestyle time ever.
>meme strokes
There's about as much difference between a freestyle and the other strokes as there is between running normally and running while flapping your arms about.
It is required that you return to your country of origin.
I was unfortunately born in this clown country
>stick your arm out straight
Gold medal
>now make a circle
Gold medal
>now make a smaller circle
Gold medal
>now flip around and do the same thing
Gold medal
>Puerto rico
I shouldn't even be responding to you
>give swimmers 4 races for each distance
>get to do 200m races as well
>on top of that 2 different relays at each distance
Swimming medals are literally meme medals.
Bolt is 9 for 9, never lost a race in his life excluding one DQ.
Phelps has a couple silvers and bronzes, and he got beat by a literal who in the Olympics.
>phelps can do 4 diff strokes and many distances
>bolt the "GOAT" can only do 100M ad 200M... not 400 or 800....
relly mak u contemplate
Well to be more precise, it would be like if there were not only events for the 100m and 200m sprints, but 60m, 150m, 250m, and 300m (somewhat debatable as to whether Bolt would win the former).
Or perhaps to be more apt, also include the 100m running backwards, 100m crabwalk, 100m hop on one leg race, 100m egg and spoon race etc...
Who is this qt?
>meme strokes
the only thing that matters is going from A to B in the shortest time, so only freestyle should count
bolt has many more options
he chooses to only do 3
especially at his size why doesnt he do hurdles?
Did Phelps do the 400 or 800? No. So there.
>People arguing 9>23
Really makes you ponder
Then leave you useless faggot, seriously book a flight and get the fuck out if you are going to bitch about being in the country that poor sand niggers dream of getting to.
100M Sprint
150M Sprint
200M Sprint
100M Sprint with your arms above your head
150M Sprint with your arms above your head
200M Sprint with your arms above your head
100M Sprint Backwards
150M Sprint Backwards
200M Sprint Backwards
100M Sprint but you have to stop every 25M
150M Sprint but you have to stop every 25M
200M Sprint but you have to stop every 25M
4x100M Sprint
4x150M Sprint
4x200M Sprint
4x100M Sprint with your arms above your head
this is how stupid swimming looks to non-americans
Do you people realize Bolt can't do shit against Owens without the modern track field and steroids?
>phelps does 4 strokes
>bolt cant even do hurdles
Usain Bolt is better at sprinting than Phelps is at swimming. Also, everybody in the world knows how to sprint and has raced at some point, so there's a larger field of potential opponents. Some people don't even know to swim. It's kind of like how soccer is the most popular sport in the world because it's so easy to play, you just need something to kick.
Simple, really.
Bolt > Phelps
>100m sprint backwards
Top kek would pay large to see this
have your mum explain it to you
>county focuses on cycling
>gets butthurt over swimming
zzzzzzz
Swim while jumping over hurdles and you may have a point.
It wouldn't even be that convoluted, the difference between the 4 different strokes is minimal compared to those.
>Bolt competes against blacks
>Phelps competes against whites
Phelps is irrelevant.
>Run fast in a straight line
Gold medal
>Run fast in a straight line and jump over some barriers
Gold medal
>Run fast and take three long steps once you're at full speed
Gold medal
>Run fast and jump once you're at full speed
Gold Medal
Which is more indicative of athleticism, sprinting or swimming?
Nothing is more athletic than being literally the fastest human being to ever walk the planet.
if phelps is a stat padder then how come no other swimmer even comes close to him? just face it you fucking nerds, that man did more with one lifetime than you could do with 10.
phelps could run faster than bolt could swim so phelps it the better athlete
Swimming under obstacles would make more sense, and be pretty cool.
nothing is more iconic than a 100m sprint
No one will remember Phelp's races, only the amount of medal he has. No one can forget Bolt's races.
The average person can be 10 seconds behind Bolt but minutes behind Phelps, swimming IS harder than running.
Swimming uses more muscles.
Your move.
Bolt: a miracle of genetics
Phelps: a miracle of doping
This is fucking retarded.
Swimming literally gives out triple the gold compared to other events.
Fucking 5000 meter run is one medal
>It's way easier to remember 9 races than it is 23
ftfy
Both are genetic miracles though, Phelps is Gattaca tier engineered for swimming.
Well, yeah. If Bolt is running 100m and Phelps is swimming 1500m.
>swimming IS harder than running
Running is, but sprinting for 100+ metres at Olympic-caliber speeds is just as hard.
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the fact that there are 5 different track cycling events is even more retarded
If swimming is so much harder and running is so easy how come Phelps didn't win a running medal. It's so easy after all
I already made my move. Bolt going 9 for 9 and never losing puts him ahead of Phelps.
It's like comparing a guy who goes to the finals 13 times and winning 10 to a guy going to the finals 8 times and winning all 8. Bolt is literal perfection athletically.
This would be a valid comparison if track and field had medals for running backwards, running to the side, running with the crabwalk...etc.
>running in a straight line is the pinnacle of athleticism
>never losing
Are you talking about at the olympics or over his whole career? He's definitely lost before.
Except Kareem is better than MJ leaf.
Phelps only wanted 23 gold medals, he might as well let Bolt win less than half
>No stamina nigger vs THE greatest olympian
Land fags are in denial.
He lost the race he false started
Nobody has mentioned the best argument for Bolt: he not only won the gold medals, he absolutely crushed his competition.
His margins of victory in sprints were enormous.
bolt isn't even the best in his own meme category
sit the fuck down bolt cucks
Olympics
kek
I'm not in denial. I'm making equally retarded points about how you can't compare them
My only argument I would use is that everyone everywhere knows who bolt is, in 4 years we will still talk boutique him. Phelps will be a literal "who" by then. Myself and all my flat forgot Phelps existed until the commentary pointed him out at the opening ceremony
>sprinting
>get from A to B in the quickest most efficient way possible
>swimming
>get from A to B in the quickest most efficient way possible (freestyle)
>now can you do it swimming on your back
>or can you do it using your chest
>how about bobbing up and down
have phelps and bolt never met? there's literally no pics of the 2 of them together.