Swimming

I think I've touched on this subject before, but the sheer number of swimming events is utterly ridiculous.  There are simply too many too alike.  It's a fantastic achievement of Michael Phelps to have 21 gold medals (at the time of writing this), but it's absolutely farcical that someone can get that many.  I think there are many more equal if not better Olympians, but they got overshadowed simply by the fact that this guy has loads of medals and doesn't compete in a sport that only rewards the truly deserving.  If swimming is allowed to have front crawl, back stroke, butterfly and breast stroke - then track events should include running forwards, running backwards, skipping and doing cartwheels.  I would love to see the running backwards 1500m!