Phelps' All-time World Rankings:
100m fly - 2nd (Crocker)
200m fly - 1st (WR)
200m IM - 1st (WR)
400m IM - 1st (WR)
200m Fr - 1st (WR)
400m Fr - 4th (I think, to Thorpe, Hackett, and Keller)
200m Bk - 2nd (Piersol)
With no more Thorpe, an aging Hackett, an off-and-on Keller, and a somewhat inconsistent Piersol... Phelps has a real shot to not only beat Spitz' record of 7 total gold medals, but in fact he could damn well win 7 *individual* golds in Beijing. Add on 3 more relays (which should be as good as any other team in olympic competition), and you're talking about the potential for 10 golds in a single olympics.
If he could pull that off, it would be without a doubt the most dominant individual performance in the history of any sport, IMO.
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