David Macaray Is Fucking Insane

If he thinks there's some kid who would have beaten Michael Phelps easily if only he'd been able to swim.  That's fucking stupid.  It's fine to think that swimming--or tennis--is strictly a country-club sport.  It's fucking asinine and hilariously wrong, but it's fine.  (Golf is a country-club sport but swimming and tennis are available to way more kids than golf in the USA--many teams have financial aid for interested swimmers and the privilege required to swim is not anywhere near as much as required to golf.)  But to say that somewhere out there is some dude who woulda kicked Michael Phelps' ass is beyond inane.  Phelps is on his fourth Olympics with a decent chance at an individual medal; he's the greatest swimmer and one of the greatest athletes in history.  If Macaray had not been such a douche and said there were potential Division I recruits in swimming out there who never got the chance, anyone would agree.  But to say that someone would have easily beaten Phelps but for opportunity doesn't make you not a racist, it makes you an asshole.  Macaray obviously has some weird beef with Phelps, but even Phelps knows that he is not the best Caucasian swimmer in history and that there are no young or not so young men who were going to go around beating him easily at his prime from South Central LA or Russia or Japan or anywhere else.  Swimming's all about the clock.  The fastest swimmer wins every time, and Phelps was the fastest more times at the big meets than anyone else.