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But we must point out that Spitz achieved his accomplishment without depilatories.
I think that settles that argument.
Puffery in moments of celebration is generally lame (at least to me, when there is something legitimately worth recognition, inflating it even further cheapens it). The fact that most of Phelps's medals are in events that shouldn't exist (by my objective criteria) means the mere fact that he gets to have them is already sufficient puffery.
I demand that trap and skeet shooting have 50-, 75-, 100-, 125-, and 150-shot competitive versions so that Kim Rhodes has a chance to show she can be equally dominant.
But really, get rid of all of the swim events other than freestyle (or create events where the other strokes make sense as superior to freestyle). Also, get rid of weight class differentiations.
Who cares how much a 145-pound man can lift unless it is more than the 300-pound man. We don't have "the 100 meter dash for people who can't run as fast." Who cares which of the 113-pound men can win a fight against other 113-pound men. We don't have an Olympic-basketball tournament just for people under 5' 10".
And get rid of gender segregated competitions where there is no reason for the segregation. Shooting: unless there is some physiological reason a woman can't aim a gun as well as a man that I'm unaware of.
Also, eliminate any event where you're expected to wear makeup. Any event with subjective scoring should be strongly considered for elimination. Events that are just glorified child abuse (gymnastics: you're failing on all counts here) should just go away.
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