Unless you have been hiding under a rock since Friday you obviously know that Michale Phelps is outswimming the world like an F-18 outflies a hot air balloon.  As I write this Michael Phelps has 5 gold medals and has won each one with a world record.

Phelps has won a record 11 gold medals so far in his career and doesn’t appear to be stopping anytime soon.  He has left in this Olympics the 200m IM, the 100m fly and the 4×100 medly relay. 

The Us is all but a lock in the 4×100m medly relay and his closest competition in the two individual races that he has left right now appear to be Team USA members.  Lochte in the 200m IM and Crocker in the 100m Fly.

SLEEP EAT SWIM REPEAT: That is a typical day for Michael Phelps right now in Beijing.  After getting up in the morning he eats breakfast which are a part of the approximately 12,000 calories a day that he is eating everyday.  He needs all that food because he is swimming over 5 miles a day when you add up all his warm-ups, races, and warm-down(doesn’t sound right I know but that is what they call it) swims.

Michael Phelps has been asked if he will ever seim a schedule like this in an Olympics again and he laughs and say no no way.  He is swimming 8 different events amounting to 17 individual races when you count prelims, semi-finals, and of course the gold medal race.  Even without that many race in London (2012 summer games)  something tells me that he will still amass a few more gold medals then as he has been truly dominating this year.

If Michael Phelps can beat Mark Spitz’s record of 7 gold medals by winning all 8 of his races this year it will rival some of the world’s greatest sporting accomplishments of all time.  It will put him in the same league as Lance Armstrong’s 7 straight Tour de France wins, Cal Ripken Jr’s 2632 straight games played, Dimaggio’s 56 game hit streak, and any of the other “unbreakable” records that you can think of.

Michael Phelps is the greatest Olympian in my lifetime and possibly of all time.

USA, USA, USA!!!