Haha, real talk though, I was competing in those events as he was already making a huge name for himself. I got to run on the same track as him at the Penn relays, not the same event, but we were in the funnel at the same time. He was huge. Head above everyone else. He was younger at the time, and the consensus was that he was simply too lazy to go the longer distance stuff. Bc even with minimal effort, his 400 times were Olympic level competitive. Or it might've been a smart cost-benefit analysis thing on his part...why push your body and potentially injure yourself when you could focus on sprints instead?
Dude isn’t stupid that’s for sure. I met one of his cousins a couple weeks ago visiting from Miami. We got along and he’s going to take me down to Jamaica to meet him in December. I race motorcycles and I respect speed so much and Bolt was always a hero of mine. Dude heard me going on about him and invited me out to Jamaica to hang out. Had no idea he was his cousin and I didn’t believe him til he pulled out the photo album lol
His biggest controversy was that he slowed down at the end of the 100m dash final at the Beijing Olympics. He had such a huge lead that he started celebrating at the 80 meter mark. Despite slowing down, he still managed to get gold and break his own world record. https://youtu.be/o-urnlaJpOA
Between watching him and Phelps get 8 gold medals in swimming, the 2008 summer olympics will always be my favorite.
Phelps and Bolt made the Olympics something really special in those years. Now we will probably see less raw athletic ability and more virtue signaling and politicization.
I remember being dumbfounded upon watching a news report that detailed what Phelps ate during his Olympic career, for that week at least he was having around 12,000 calories per day.
He ate more for breakfast than I would have in three days. His body just needed that ridiculous amount of energy to achieve the feats he did.
If you like swimming, Katie Ledecky is fun to watch. She is on a whole different level than everyone else in the sport, similar to how Usain Bolt was. She is actually further ahead of the rest of the pack than Phelps ever was. The difference between Phelps and her is that she only dominates in 3 individual events, where as Phelps was able to pull out victories in 4 individual events. The races are also not as exciting because she wins them by so much lol. It’s still super impressive to watch.
Yep. Just the fastest man in recorded human history, that's all.
If he wanted to, he probably could have run the fastest 400 and fastest 800 in the world too.
I heard it’s his legs alone that power the trump train
Haha, real talk though, I was competing in those events as he was already making a huge name for himself. I got to run on the same track as him at the Penn relays, not the same event, but we were in the funnel at the same time. He was huge. Head above everyone else. He was younger at the time, and the consensus was that he was simply too lazy to go the longer distance stuff. Bc even with minimal effort, his 400 times were Olympic level competitive. Or it might've been a smart cost-benefit analysis thing on his part...why push your body and potentially injure yourself when you could focus on sprints instead?
Dude isn’t stupid that’s for sure. I met one of his cousins a couple weeks ago visiting from Miami. We got along and he’s going to take me down to Jamaica to meet him in December. I race motorcycles and I respect speed so much and Bolt was always a hero of mine. Dude heard me going on about him and invited me out to Jamaica to hang out. Had no idea he was his cousin and I didn’t believe him til he pulled out the photo album lol
His biggest controversy was that he slowed down at the end of the 100m dash final at the Beijing Olympics. He had such a huge lead that he started celebrating at the 80 meter mark. Despite slowing down, he still managed to get gold and break his own world record. https://youtu.be/o-urnlaJpOA
Between watching him and Phelps get 8 gold medals in swimming, the 2008 summer olympics will always be my favorite.
Phelps and Bolt made the Olympics something really special in those years. Now we will probably see less raw athletic ability and more virtue signaling and politicization.
I remember being dumbfounded upon watching a news report that detailed what Phelps ate during his Olympic career, for that week at least he was having around 12,000 calories per day.
He ate more for breakfast than I would have in three days. His body just needed that ridiculous amount of energy to achieve the feats he did.
If you like swimming, Katie Ledecky is fun to watch. She is on a whole different level than everyone else in the sport, similar to how Usain Bolt was. She is actually further ahead of the rest of the pack than Phelps ever was. The difference between Phelps and her is that she only dominates in 3 individual events, where as Phelps was able to pull out victories in 4 individual events. The races are also not as exciting because she wins them by so much lol. It’s still super impressive to watch.