Surely I'm not the only one who’s a bit bored of the BBC droning on about Michael Phelps – he’s half man, half dolphin apparently.
Phelps is a wonderful athlete but just a little word to the BBC – he’s not British. Even before the Games began the Beeb was hanging its hopes, quite literally, on the tacky looking cut out of the swimmer which is calls the Phelps-o-meter.
The Beeb has also pointed out that if Phelps were a country he’d be fourth (at the time) in the medal table. Chuckle. Well, I’ve worked out that if Marketing magazine were a country we’d have as many medals as Belgium. Hurrah!
The BBC website even has a section where fans can design their own ‘United State of Michael Phelps’ flags. The only reason I can think of that it would be a good idea for Phelps to compete as his own country is that Team GB would now lie second in the medal table ahead of the USA.
Phelps’ achievements although remarkable cannot be compared to those of Olympians in sports where winning multiple medals simply is not possible. He should be applauded but perhaps they should just have fewer swimming races?
Maybe someone has finally had a word with the BBC to put an end to this nonsense because in a run down of the greatest Olympians of all time broadcast last night, it quite rightly chose our very own Sir Steve Redgrave as number one.
