Michael Phelps vs Mark Spitz — Greatest Swimmer Ever
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Michael Phelps is the most decorated Olympian in history with 23 gold medals and 28 Olympic medals in total — numbers so extraordinary that they seem almost fictional. His dominance at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, where he won 8 gold medals in 8 events, is considered one of the greatest individual performances in Olympic history. Mark Spitz won 7 gold medals at the 1972 Munich Olympics — a record that stood for 36 years until Phelps broke it. Both swimmers transformed their sport. Both were physically gifted to a degree that bordered on the supernatural. But when people vote on who is truly the greatest swimmer ever — who wins?
