The Top 2 Athletes in Recent Memory

2. LANCE ARMSTRONG-We all know him, we all know what he did. However, we don't really understand what he did. He won the Tour de France 7 times in a row. He crushed the world's best cyclists in a race where you bike 120 miles a day for 3 weeks straight. An it's not on a flat road the entire time. These guys bike in the fucking Alps with inclines that would make normal people say "fuck that". Year after year, Lance made the world's best look like they were riding big wheelers. Nobody had dominated cycling like that. Ever. He overcame cancer and brought his "game" to a whole new level that no one thought was possible. He became the iconic symbol for America with his "never give up" attitude. We all like to see people when they Livestrong.

1. MICHAEL PHELPS-Nobody watches swimming. The 2008 Summer Olympics changed that. We all were interested in watching this guy named Michael Phelps literally dominate every event that he entered. He won a total of 8 gold medals in the Olympics. That's the most medals for any one person in the Olympics. (that goes back all the way to 1896, when the modern olympics started). Swimming takes an extreme amount of athletic ability and thats why I believe Michael Phelps is the best athlete in the world. Even before the 2008 Olympics he was winning nearly every event he entered. He gave all of us something to cheer about and look forward to during his magical run during those Olympics.  8 gold medals will never be topped in a single Olympics ever again. No other athlete has the ability to compete in 8 different events and dominate the field like Phelps did. He made it look simple. It wasn't.