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Posted By: Jeff Lichtman

For what it's worth, while Michael Phelps has certainly sacrificed much of his personal life for swimming thus far in his life, the fact that at age 23 he's already won 16 Olympic medals and stands to make $100 million or so because of this does suggest that the sacrifice he made was well worth it.

And furthermore...Phelps won gold in races in which different strokes were employed; therefore, he was forced to race against swimmers' whose entire life is centered around that one specific stroke -- and yet Phelps smoked them all. And unlike winning a Decathlon, he couldn't have a subpar performance in one competition and make it up in the next one.