Freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, fly
Track, road, bmx, mtb
Aye, but there’s one road race gold medal, one BMX, one MTB, and admittedly several track.
Within each stroke there are 100, 200, 400, 800, plus relays, plus medleys, plus the odd longer one, so at least 6 medals, with many contested by the same people.
It’s all very well saying Michael Phelps is the greatest Olympian ever because he’s won the most medals, and not detracting from his achievements, but in no other discipline can any one athlete win 8 gold medals!
I think it’s a bit odd I must say.
I also get annoyed with Becky Adlington having repeatedly said “my sport is harder than the others”, I’ve not heard any other athlete say this when justifying why they’ve not won gold, she’s done it twice in (the few) interviews I’ve watched. None of the sports are easy FFS!