I think Bolt is more of a natural athlete. Many people in the world have access to the training required to hone their inner sprinter, but no one likely in the history of the world has ever been as fast as Bolt.
Phelps, on the other hand, is the benefactor of growing up not-poor. It takes money to be able to train your kid in a pool from the age of six, money that most children of the world will never have access to. Start training young, inner city black kids how to swim really fast starting at the age of six and let's see how good Phelps really is then. The results could be similar to what happened to the game of football when blacks started playing for all we know.
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