It helps that he's chosen a sport that offers endless opportunities to win a medal (50m, 51m, 51.2m, 57.6m, 60.5m, 72.8m, 85.2m, 90.4m...each in four different strokes, and don't forget the relays). If he'd chosen football or tennis he'd only have a chance of winning one medal. And if he'd chosen cricket he wouldn't have any chance (the IOC doesn't consider cricket to be sport, whereas synchronised swimming is a sport).
Take him out of the hi-tech swimming pool, remove his space-age swimsuit, put him in a snug budgie smuggler and drop him in a 1970s municipal pool and you will see his true colours. Michael Phelps is not the greatest Olympian. He is merely the beneficiary of the greatest hype in recent years.
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