Phelps is First

Michael Phelps, America's beloved swimming champion and poo-brained Subway marketer, now stands alone at the pinnacle of Olympic greatness.

Phelps, who already has the most gold medals in history, now has the most medals overall as well.  His performance in London 2012 hasn't been nearly as dominating as it was in Beijing 2008 but he is still in every medal conversation.

And speaking of conversations, there seems to be some debate about whether or not Phelps is the greatest Olympian of all time or not.

And I'm not really sure why.  Where's the debate here?

He has the MOST medals of out anybody else in the entire history of the Olympics.  Seems pretty simple to me.  He's the greatest.  Like, for sure.  It's pretty definite.

Let me explain something here: in every sport there is something that is to be attained, some sort of goal.  Whether it's trophies, medals, ribbons, gift certificates to Denny's, bejeweled crowns, women, etc.  Whatever it is, when you have the most, you are the greatest!

Oh you beat me once or twice?  That's nice.  I have the MOST!

Michael Phelps is so good that they interviewed him after somebody else won a gold medal.  Not to mention that they interviewed him and he can't even speak!

In Beijing, he entered eight events and won every single one of them.  That's never been done before.

So, he's had a better individual performance at an Olympics than everybody else and now his career Olympics records is better than everybody else.

I never understood why everybody has a problem with trying to decide who is number one in a sport with such an expansive pool of competitors.  I get what you are saying.  It's impossible to determine which sport is more difficult than the other one.  It's also hard to compare athletes of twenty years ago with the athletes of today thanks to advances in technology and training.

But if you are going to focus on something at the Olympics, you focus on medals.  That's the measuring stick and last I checked Phelps was at the top.

And that number is still rising, by the way.  Literally as I type this, Phelps is winning more gold.