If Michael Phelps was his own country, it would rank 40th all-time of countries with the most medals

If Michael Phelps was his own country, it would rank 40th all-time of countries with the most medals

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Fact of the day, day day, day day.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
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Speaker 3 (00:18):
Today's and we continue our fact of the day Olympics. Yeah,
the fact of that about the Olympics. Now, I was
sent this one in from Jess Cunliffe.

Speaker 4 (00:28):
She says, born, do you know American swim Michael Phelps
is the Olympics goat with twenty three gold medals. If
he was a country, he would be fortieth in the
all time rankings for gold medals.

Speaker 3 (00:40):
It hasn't got just we.

Speaker 5 (00:42):
Were speaking yesterday, some countries don't even have a single medal. No.

Speaker 3 (00:45):
Ye, then that's what spur yes to say.

Speaker 4 (00:49):
If he was a country, Michael Phelps would be the
fortieth highest ranking country of all time including all the
modern Olympics.

Speaker 3 (00:56):
Isn't that inside?

Speaker 5 (00:58):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (00:59):
They is pretty amazing.

Speaker 3 (01:01):
Twenty three gold and that's just in the gold medals.

Speaker 4 (01:03):
He's also got three silver and two bronze went across
five games.

Speaker 5 (01:07):
He's got how many middles and only three of them
are silver?

Speaker 6 (01:11):
Yeah, and only two of them are bronze.

Speaker 4 (01:13):
Twenty six, twenty eight middles, and twenty three of those
means gold medals.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
Do you remember when it was a trend to try
to eat Michael Phelps die?

Speaker 1 (01:21):
Yes.

Speaker 5 (01:21):
I was just thinking that they'd always say here's what
he eats in a day, and it was like eight
eight thousand calories?

Speaker 3 (01:26):
Yeah, thousand calories?

Speaker 4 (01:27):
Was it between eight thousand and ten thousand calories a day?
And it wasn't even like healthily distributed calories. Wasn't he
smashing like whole pizzas?

Speaker 1 (01:36):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:36):
He was just turning it eight to ten thousand calories
a day.

Speaker 1 (01:38):
To put a perspective, like most people would eat adults
would be like two thousands.

Speaker 3 (01:43):
They have two thousand, right, I don't.

Speaker 2 (01:46):
Know where it would go, Like, I'd just be like, yeah, constantly,
he'd get up early, so you'd have a longer day.

Speaker 6 (01:51):
Yeah, heavy training a lot, so you'd be burning.

Speaker 5 (01:54):
Yeah, he'd still be oh yeah, oh my god, like
cal sized poops.

Speaker 3 (02:01):
Yeah, I reckon poops.

Speaker 2 (02:03):
Shot him at the pedit.

Speaker 3 (02:04):
I reckon toilet can't handle a lot of meat in it.
And you know what floating around he's amazing.

Speaker 6 (02:11):
Who's come close to her?

Speaker 4 (02:12):
No?

Speaker 3 (02:12):
One, but I'm on it.

Speaker 2 (02:14):
Oh no, I was including she's got world records.

Speaker 3 (02:16):
Sorry, yeah, but Simons, there's not as many gymnasts.

Speaker 4 (02:20):
He was doing one hundred meters, fifty meters, two hundred meters,
four hundred meters. Midley's like, there's so many swimming events
only thinks he could win. He just dominated, and that's
why people I've looked up like Usain Bolt. He was
like the fastest man alive and like everybody knew who
he was.

Speaker 6 (02:35):
Yeah, but he would only run the hundred.

Speaker 3 (02:38):
There's not as many.

Speaker 4 (02:38):
Running events as there were. There's one hundred meter sprints,
but he couldn't turn that into hurdles. He'd do part
of the four by one hundred relay whatch he won
medals for as well, So that was also dependent on
three other people.

Speaker 3 (02:49):
Felts was just this.

Speaker 5 (02:50):
Earnit second place for Korea medals as a Soviet gymnast.
Melissa Latania the winner of eighteen medals.

Speaker 3 (02:59):
She was back in the day, right, Oh, yes, the
fifties and sixties.

Speaker 2 (03:02):
All like four disciplines.

Speaker 5 (03:03):
Yeah, and then there's a Norwegian that's won fifteen medals
and various cross country skiing andlyms with fifteen medals.

Speaker 6 (03:12):
But isn't that insane. He's just miles.

Speaker 3 (03:14):
Ahead, leagues ahead of everybody.

Speaker 2 (03:16):
He's literally a walking upside down triangle the shoulders.

Speaker 3 (03:20):
I haven't seen him lately.

Speaker 4 (03:21):
I mean, he's probably at these Olympics right because he's
so he'll be he's blown out, but tone down from
a ten thousand calorie diet back to.

Speaker 1 (03:30):
A two thousand, all like stretched and flabby, like fill
me up. Yeah, surely it's still swim right, like for fun.

Speaker 4 (03:42):
I don't want to see a po We got to
get another, got to get another hobby. So today's fact
today is that thanks to Jess who's submitted that if.

Speaker 6 (03:50):
Channon just said his son one his first swim at
a primary school, Oh that's cute. Oh my god, that's ridiculous.

Speaker 3 (03:57):
But nippo. Yeah, imagine it swing sports and there like
a lane three little Joey Phelps and one even bother coming.

Speaker 2 (04:06):
This is why I was thinking about it, because Michael
Phelps some gave Snoop Dogg a swimming lesson in France
just the other day.

Speaker 3 (04:12):
Snoop Dogg is so skinny, so skinny.

Speaker 2 (04:13):
Yeah. Yeah, they jumped into a pool and did like
a fun like social media thing.

Speaker 1 (04:17):
Really like a high is the face of this elem
Why he's the full face of the Olympic because he's
the man.

Speaker 4 (04:23):
He's got a pin and it's him smoking a joint
and blowing the Olympic rings.

Speaker 3 (04:28):
Snoop dear double gm and it's an official Olympics.

Speaker 5 (04:31):
Is he even French?

Speaker 2 (04:33):
Forshizzle dude?

Speaker 3 (04:34):
Of course he's French. What do you talking about it?

Speaker 4 (04:38):
Of course famous French rapper from the LBC Snoop Dogg.

Speaker 2 (04:45):
Forshizzle?

Speaker 3 (04:47):
Where Shizzle? So today's factor today thanks.

Speaker 4 (04:51):
The jest is that if Michael Phelps was his own country,
he'd be the fortieth most successful country for a gold
medal haul in history