Greatest Olympian Ever: Who Takes the Crown?
Sarai Feil
2025-05-21 19:27:10
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American swimmer Michael Phelps boasts the record for the athlete with the most medals in Olympics history with 28 to his name. Phelps competed in five Olympic games and racked up an incredible, 23 gold, three silver, and two bronze medals. He went to his first games at Sydney 2000 aged just 15 and became the youngest man in the USA team for an Olympic Games in 68 years. At the 2004 games in Athens he announced himself to the world by winning six gold medals and two bronzes. In Beijing 2008 he upped that to eight gold medals – winning every event he entered – and achieved the greatest ever medal haul by a single athlete in an Olympic Games. At London 2012 he scooped four golds and two silvers in what was set to be his final Games. But he reversed his decision to retire after London and headed to Rio in 2016 to bag five gold medals and one silver. He retired for the second and final time after Rio, aged 31.
Cruz Moore
2025-05-09 18:37:07
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After observing Phelps’ record in Olympic events, Federation Internationale de Natation (FINA) had adjudged him as the greatest Olympian of all time. However, some experts countered such a decision thereby raising a debate whether Phelps should be considered as the greatest Olympic sports person ever.
They pointed out that apart from Phelps, other great Olympians such as Jesse Owens, Carl Lewis, Paavo Nurmi, Steve Redgrave etc too excelled in various sports events at different editions of Olympics games. Therefore, it remained a debatable issue whether Michael Phelps deserved the crown of the greatest Olympian of all time.
Macey Doyle
2025-05-03 10:43:49
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Jason Kenny is the most decorated British Olympian of all-time. He always seemed to find his best form when the Olympics come round. A hat-trick of gold medals at Rio and another first place in Tokyo secured Kenny as the greatest British Olympian in history.
Harmony Smitham
2025-04-24 16:03:17
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The greatest Olympian of all time is American swimmer Michael Phelps. He won a total of 28 Olympic medals between 2004–2016 - 23 gold, 3 silver and 2 gold. When it comes to medal tables - and determining the best Olympians of all time - it’s usually a case of simply who has won most gold medals.
Elmo Towne
2025-04-24 14:38:44
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Owens stood up to racism and persecution in the most indefatigable fashion. Others leave their respective Games laden with armfuls of medals. But few if any attained sporting perfection quite like the Romanian 14-year-old. The statistics say it all about Phelps, the most decorated Olympian in history with 28 medals, including 13 individual golds. Some create singular seminal moments that ring down decades. Anointed by many as the saviour of a sport mired in drugs scandals and short on stardust, Bolt bestrode the sprint events, repeating his 100m and 200m victories through three Games, none more notable than his 9.69secs success in Beijing in 2008.
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