If Usain Bolt Wins the 200m As Convincingly as the 100m...

[amat]

Bolt's coach wants him to run the 400 and he could but he turned 22 between leaving the tunnel and finishing the race in the 200. A runner's prime isn't until 27-31. He'll have the 400 in his discipline next time out and some are predicting he'll be the one to break 40 seconds there. That's more of a stamina test though so who knows but it's possible that that could be his best event, he has a more conventional build for it. And sprinting takes a lot out of you. Wind sprints will bring back nightmares to basically everyone in America who played football at one time or another. I don't know what requires more but again, these are trivial points here as time doesn't tell everything, surely Phelps isn't exerting himself as much over those 5 minutes as a runner sprinting 400 is. Truth is me or you, neither of us know what takes more out of you so there is really no point bringing it up.

And I don't know what to tell you if you don't get how a swimmer gets more medals. There are a bunch of different strokes and Phelps does two of them, there is only 1 way to run so theres double the chances right there plus the backstroke and medleys where they mix and match.

If you want any further proof, research how many multiple medalists there have been in track opposed to swimming and you'll find your answer there.

Even with the long jump medal, Carl Lewis' 4 to Bolt's eventual 3 will be like splitting hairs and like I explained before in the era of specialization you just don't get the long jump/sprint hybrids anymore. Lewis didn't walk away with it like Bolt did either. No one has. Bolt is already in rarefied air in sprinting. Owens, Lewis, Johnson and Bolt is essentially how the list reads out right now.

[JT Rock]

Usain Bolt is a Juggernaut... End of discussion

I ran track and cross country in high school, sprinting is an amazing thing since the simplicity of it is just running straight ahead, there are no elaborate techniques involved other than making sure you keep your body mechanics in the sprint streamlined and economy of motion... but yea in that simplicity there is one man in this civilized world that holds an eye popping world record in probably the most basic and raw form of human competion since men were created on this earth.... Think about that for a minute

My arguement wasnt to downplay Phelps accompolishments, moreover I was lauding the sheer amazement and domination of Usain Bolt..