10. Miss Franklin
Country: United States
Young star Missy Franklin became the second most successful Olympic athlete at the London Olympics after winning four gold and one bronze medal in various swimming competitions, including the world record set in the 200m backstroke. She also won three gold medals at the World Championships. If she continues to be successful, she will become a huge darling in future games, and may even challenge Phelps to win the greatest Olympic title of all time.
9. David Rudisha
Country: Kenya
David Rudisha has been described as "the greatest Olympian you've never heard of." Before the 2012 Olympics, he was barely known outside of his home country. He set a new world record of 800m in London at 1:40.91, surpassing Wilson Kipketer's record in 1997. Rudishabang also boasts three best times of 800m and half of the 20 best times of all time. Rudisha is also the 800m World Junior, African and World Champion
8. Shirley Ann Fraser-Price
Country: Jamaica
Fraser-Price, also known as the "Pocket Rocket", is another example of Jamaica's great sprinter. She won the gold medal in the 100m race in Beijing with 10.78 seconds and then won the London doubles at a speed of 10.75s. Together with Bolt, Fracer-Price became the first team in history (Jamaica), winning two gold medals in the 100m twice in a row. She also won a silver medal in the 200m and a silver medal in the 4x100m relay.
Fraser-Price is the women's 100m race is the fourth fastest time ever.
7. Felix Sanchez
Country: Dominican Republic
Since taking the 400 million steeplechase gold medal in Athens in 2004, no one wants Sanchez to do so again in London. He beat his favorites Javier Culson and Michael Tinsley in 47 seconds to become one of the greatest 400 million hurdlers of all time. Sanchez said after the victory: "No one expected that. A lot of people said I should retire, but I stuck with it. You can see what the medal means to Sanchez on the medal podium, one of the most exciting reactions in the game.
6. Oscar Pistorius
Country: South Africa
Oscar Pistorius, hailed as "the fastest man without legs" at the London Olympics, was the first double amputee to take part in the Games. He competed in the 400m and 4x400m sprint races. He is the paralympic record holder for the T44 100m, 200m and 400m.
At the 2004 Paralympic Games, Pistorius won gold and bronze medals in the 200m and 100m respectively. In Beijing, he won gold medals in 100m, 200m and 400m respectively. He is a favourite for these events at the London Paralympic Games.
In 2008, Pistorius was named one of time magazine's 100 most influential people.
5. Ben Ainsley
Country/Region: United Kingdom
Cornwall Olympian Ainslie became the greatest sailor in Olympic history after winning the gold medal at the fourth Olympic Games in London. In 1996 in Atlanta, Ainslie won the silver medal and since then he has won gold medals at four consecutive Olympic Games.
Ainslie is an eight-time world champion who has won awards in multiple disciplines including Finland, lasers and radical radicalism. He has received awards from MBE, OBE and CBE. He was also the ISAF World Mariner of the Year, three times more than any other sailor. Ainslie was the first to receive the 2012 Olympic flame in Cornwall, Lands End, and raised the flag for GB at the closing ceremony.
4. Wu Minxia
Country: China
Wu Minxia is one of the greatest divers of all time. She has spent her career from 2001 to the present. Her Olympic career began in Athens, a gold medal in Sikkro and a silver medal in 3m. In Beijing, Min Xia won a synchronized gold and bronze medal at 3m. At the London Olympics, she won her third synchronized gold medal and finally won the 3m gold medal.
Min Xia is also a five-time World Synchronized Championship champion and a 3m world champion. She also won four gold medals at the Asian Games.
3. Sir Chris Hoy
Chris Hoy became Britain's most decorated Olympian after winning two gold medals in cycling in London. The sport has dominated the sport in past olympic games, with the UK dominating.
Chris Hoy began his Olympic tour in Sydney, where he won a silver medal for the Sprint team. In Athens, he won gold in the 1 km time trial; in Beijing, he won three gold medals at Sprint, Sprint and Keirin. In London, locals cheered as he won gold in the Sprint team and gold at Keirin. Hoy holds a total of six Olympic gold medals and one silver medal.
Chris Hoy has won the 1 km time trial world championship four times, the Killeen world championship four times, the team sprint world championship twice, and the sprint world championship twice. Hoy also won two gold and two bronze medals at the Commonwealth Games, and won a total of 37 medals in the main competition. He has won many world records and Olympic records in cycling.
Hoy was awarded the MBE for his services to the sport of cycling, and the racing track at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow was also named after him. Hoy presented the British flag at the opening ceremony.
2. Michael Phelps
Phelps is officially the oldest decorated Olympian in history and has won 22 medals, including a staggering 18 gold, 2 silver and 2 bronze. From one point of view, if a country in London wins the same Olympic medals in his career as Michael Phelps, they will be fifth on the medal table, ahead of South Korea!
Phelps began his amazing Olympic career in Athens, winning six gold and two bronze medals in various swimming competitions. Four years later, he beat that achievement in Beijing, winning eight gold medals and setting eight world records in the process. It is also the first place in any Olympic Games. In London, he continued his legacy with four golds and two silvers. Phelps was the most successful athlete in Athens, Beijing and London.
Phelps also won medals at the World Championships and the Pan Pacific Championships, and won a total of 71 medals in major competitions from 2001 to 2012. Michael Phelps is the six-time world swimmer of the year.
Phelps has won numerous awards and 39 world records, the most of all swimmers.
Michael Phelps is truly an Olympic legend.
1. Bolt
I found it almost impossible to make a decision in the first place. The choice between Phelps and Bolt is really difficult because their personalities and movements vary widely. Bolt will never win 22 medals simply because he doesn't have too many medals to win in the sprint. As a result, Bolt made a "double triple" and was the fastest man ever, so Bolt was at the top of the list.
There is no denying that Usain Bolt is the greatest sprinter in Olympic history. In Beijing, he won three gold medals in the 100m, 200m and 4x100m relays. He also set a world record in every final. He spoiled the race within 100m while also untying his shoelaces! A few years later, he again lowered the world record to 9.58 at the World Championships in Berlin. At the London Olympics, it's fair to say that his performance has a lot of questions, and even Usain himself said he was only 95% ready to compete in the Olympics.
I think that's what made him even more interesting, he won the "double triple" again, winning gold in the 100m, 200m and 4x100m relay races respectively. Not only was he the first to achieve a "double triple" in a back-to-back competition to win three gold medals, but he was also the first to achieve a "double".
In the 100m race, Bolt beat his Olympic record in Beijing with a race time of 9.63 seconds, with Blake in second place and Gatlin in third. He also beat Jamaicans Blake and Weir to become the 200 million champions. And with two of the fastest 100m sprinters in the 4x100m relay, it's clear who's going to win, and Bolt took his third gold medal and became an Olympic legend.
The bolts are a bit ostentatious and unbelievable. Everyone around him was very nervous and felt stressed at the starting line, while Bolt kept as calm as possible. Millions of people around the world are using his trademark Lightning. He is one of the most famous Olympic athletes in history and will be defeated as a legend.