No, that was the point, swimming is like aoe, it has rm, dm, cba,ttf racing etc etc, Phelps was lets say like viper a guy amazingly good at rm, dm or basically anything related to aoe, but on him it was being the faster at 200m, that was like the rm for him, just like viper and rm is the most popular of all the categories, not saying that one is better than the others, it is just that it was the most popular among swimming events, most of his medals comes from non rm competitions but people is still remembering him as the fastest ever and he could be overall, but he hasn't been near to the fastest guys on water in quite sometime, so just like aoe he hasn't won anything about rm, just dm and cba events.So marathon runners are irrelevant because Bolt is faster? What?
People remember big names like usain bolt, a guy who was among the fastest guys on his prime, but you don't see the guys who are the fastest on 400m or marathoners, despite having a larger endurance.