In Reply to: Correction: Phelps won 5 individual golds, 3 team golds. posted by Punahou on August 21, 2008 at 14:24:57
Greatest Olympian of all time? perhaps.....certainly the fact he has won 14 gold medals has to count for something. How did Mark Spitz do in 1968? I seem to remember hearing he was a disappointment.
Phelps, on the other hand, ran away with 6 golds in 2004, 8 in 2008, and likely will win several more in 2012.
BTW, Mr. Spitz won only FOUR individual golds in 1972. So Phelps is ahead of him on that count as well. (last sentence directed at the thread-starter)