Mr. PeanutButter

Man, this is tough to watch. Kyle needs to refocus fast

If you told me before the Games that Spencer, with his injury history and in his 1st year of international senior wrestling, would outplace everyone else on this team of veterans, I would have given you a cookie

I've never seen MP write something nasty or mean unless it was to point out the ridiculousness of another poster. Recently you wrote that the wrestling that mattered finally started. I get not being into greco or women's freestyle but that comment was supremely disrespectful to the fans and competitors of those sports and is more of a "bully" thing to do than any of the minor lights that you get yourself so worked up about.

I don't think anybody gets to the gold medal match by reveering 2nd place. He's an intense competitor in an intense sport who just had another one of his life's goal crushed. You expect him to be skipping and grinning during the medal ceremony? Spencer has always been very hard on himself. As a fan, I wish he wasn't. I think your 2nd paragraph features a bit of projection. I'm looking at his words right now and he plainly says he was disappointed with his lack of action and that he (Spencer) didn't deserve to him. How do you interpret that to mean that the guy that did get his hand raised didn't deserve to win?

Coming from a guy that regularly loses his cool over an emoji reaction on an internet forum, that's rich, to say the least.

Higuchi trained at NLWC for, what, like 6 weeks? And that was years ago. Brooks looked great though

Maybe I'm overthinking things, maybe I'm just searching for excuses, but the heavy bags under Lee's eyes make me wonder if he got scrappy sleep last night

Nobody looks happy on that podium

Yeah, I think Brooks couldve beaten Yaz.

Ram is all over Yazdani. I think Brooks beats this version

***duck** ***duck** fuxkity ***duck**

Reí Higuchi is giving me strong vampire vibes... This I think it's the colorless lips

Jamalov seems to have a lot of bad relationships. All 3 of his matches today featured an intra match extracurricular

Men's freestyle is not off to the start I was hoping for

I have a feeling that all the real contenders are above the nipple line

I didn't think Brooks looked that bad, really. Got beat on one exchange and that vicious bow seemed to have taken a bit out of him

stopped wrestling, unfortunately. That turn that his opponent tried looked brutal. Maybe took some starch out of him

dang, big swing potentially if things get tied up oh, nevermind. lee techs him as I type this up

another gold

The Iranian coaches celebration after his athlete won 97kg greco was really something

Lopez isn't American and that definitely doesn't help his exposure

Will this even come close to what she could potentially earn through NIL? Genuinely asking, although I'm not sure anyone really knows. Totally agree with your other points

I think you might be confused about what the actual topic of discussion is, which is who the better Olympic athlete is, Lopez or Phelps. You seem to be arguing that, because Marchand is slightly faster than Phelps was, that means that he is the better Olympian and that the original topic of Phelps vs Lopez has no merit. This might shatter your mind but Marchand can be a faster swimmer yet Phelps is still the better, more successful swimmer and Olympic athlete, by every metric. You need to step back a bit and look at the whole picture rather than being fixated only on the times. The point about the suits is a good, interesting one. If you are so passionate, I encourage you to look into how the technology of the 2008 LZR compares to modern textiles (hint, drag coefficient and compression are actually better now). Full leg and body suits are banned and those certainly gave an advantage but that advantage was available to everyone. Phelps broke records and won gold before and after the tech suits.

Marchand is definitely better underwater, and Bowman has publicly talked about this so you're right on that one. I watched the international broadcast so that I could see the medal ceremonies and not have to sit through 20 minutes of commercials between events so I don't know what was said during broadcast. In an interview that Bowman gave in May he said that Marchand could not do the practice sets that Phelps did in freestyle but was close in butterfly and backstroke. And, yeah, nobody is disputing that Marchand is faster than Phelps. You would hope so since over 16 years have passed (since 2008, when Phelps was in his prime), right? The thing to look at is how dominant is Marchand relative to his competition, and in that regard he falls behind Phelps. It remains to be seen if Marchand can match Phelps' longevity, which is one of the major reasons Phelps is given GOAT status

Phelps won the 400 IM, 200 IM, and 200 fly by greater margins and in world record times, all at the Olympics. If you compare Phelps 200 free vs Marchand's 200 breast, Phelps has a greater margin of victory in that event as well. Phelps won one more individual event than Marchand did, at the same age. You're gonna have to give the exact quote where Bob Bowman said that Marchand is better. The only thing I've seen him say about Phelps vs Marchand is that they are very similar but also different (gasp)