Michael Phelps Is Good, But He Doesn’t Compare With Usain Bolt

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The headline on cover of Sports Illustrated this week should be:

"The single parent mom of Michael Phelps had her kid swim because she was afraid for her 6'4" son to play basketball with black kids in Baltimore."

Michael Phelps winning eight gold medals and setting seven world records was an amazing feat that may never be matched again.

He will go down as one of the greatest Olympic athletes of all-time, for his performances in Athens and Beijing, and probobly London in 2012 when he adds to his total.

The problem I have is that what he's done is not the most impressive thing at this year’s Olympics.

Usain Bolt, who followed in the footsteps of Derice from "Cool Runnings" as a world-class Jamaican sprinter, has been far more impressive.

He won both the 100 and 200 meter dash, breaking the world record in both. The craziest part is he won the 100 while only training for it over the last few months. The guy is a freak and is a far superior athlete to Michael Phelps.

Sure Phelps won six more gold medals but here is the problem, Michael Phelps is a swimmer, which is not that impressive of a sport. I'm not saying because it’s an easy sport or that somebody doesn’t have to be an athlete to swim, but because the competition in swimming is like putting a Sports Illustrated swimsuit model in the Huntington, West Virginia beauty pageant.

Swimming pools in America, where Phelps has dominated in the pool since he was 15, are made up of a bunch of soft kids whose parents made them swim because they know their kids wouldn't be as good in traditional sports like baseball, basketball, and football.

Those same parents, who belong to country clubs, drive their Mercedes’, and live life in the suburbs far away from "Ricky in Boyz in the Hood."

So while kids who are real athletes, spend their summers running around playing and competing in all different sports, the kid swimmer’s are swimming laps after laps, while dad is shooting a "92" with his $600 Ping g10 driver and Titleist Scottie Cameron putter, gold digging mom is flirting with the clubhouse pro.

So while Phelps is competing against guys who only know how to swim, Bolt is competing against the greatest athletes in the world.

Why is that?

Throwing out Chad Johnson’s "Liberty City Swim Team," there aren’t pools in the inner city. So blacks, who are the best athletes (as evident in the in the NBA, NFL, Track, and MLB before blacks stopped playing), generally live in America’s inner cities are eliminated from becoming swimmer’s because there are no pools and besides Terrance Howard and Bernie Mac in "Pride" are no swim coaches.

Even if there were beautiful pools, kids in the hood wouldn’t swim because their parents would teach them the sport is gayer than Kordell Stewart, Jennifer Aniston's brother in "The Break-Up", and John Amaechi combined.

I mean, really, when is the last time you looked at a swimmer and were like, "Damn, he would beat the crap out of me."?

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