A cool guide to the most dominant Olympic athletes

There are other measures of dominance. For instance, Bob Beamon set a record at the Olympics that stood for more than 30 years.
Ledecky laps the field in the 1500m (she also has 13 medals so far). No one is competitive with her.

I'm almost more impressed that 7 people apparently beat Phelps. Guessing those were mostly relays?

I guess the Americans are out trying to huff some compium for their current standings in the Olympics

Wow, 3 Chinese top-medal-earners are what it takes to match 1 Phelps.
Incredible.
Edit: It seems only one third of the sino Olympians made it here to downvote me.
Stay mad, Phelps whopped your asses so hard. While he did that he was high as fuck on that kush. Bong rips for days, then he took his medals home and criticized his government (as he is FREE to do).

The olympics are a circus that comes to town so they can rob you while you are distracted by the bullshit.
- shutup jerkface
  
  It took Montreal 30 years to pay off the debt incurred for hosting the Olympics. Host cities build vast infrastructure that is essentially disposed of after the games because there is no possible use for it absent a world event that is not going to return. Paris brags about being the "greenest Olympics ever," though clearly they are not including the vast environmental impact of inducing millions of humans to migrate across the world releasing megatons of CO2, and temporarily housing them in a place that cannot support them except in a massively unsustainable manner.