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Anonymous
Hey, look, not to tarnish what the guy's done, but aren't people getting a little too excited about the sheer amount of medals he's racking up?
I mean, sure, it's great, but, look, let's be real for a second. There is no other sport where this is possible, let alone feasible. If you play basketball, you can win one medal. One. That you share with an entire team. If you run track, maybe, if you're a great athlete, you'll walk away with two, three, maybe four if you're amazing. If you're a marathoner, you'll go home with maybe one. If you wrestle, you can win one or two. If you weightlift, you might be able to score, what, three?
I'm not saying that Phelps isn't as good as other Olympians, or that what he's doing isn't a big deal, but I think celebrating his medal count is a bad way of going about what he's doing, because it tarnishes what other Olympians can do.
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