This is being discussed online and it seems like a lively debate. We each have our own opinions and I feel that both athletes performances where outstanding.

As I used to swim then I have to say I think Michael Phelps had the more impressive performance for me to watch, I mean 8 Olympic gold medals against the best swimmers in the world, and in most events each of the main swimming competitor was specialising yet Phelps was beating them all. Impressive.

As for Usain Blot, again such an amazing performance to win the blue ribboned event of the Olympic games by such a huge margin! Not only that he took Michael Johnson's record from the '96 Olympic games, that many thought it'd take 50 years to break! Bolt also hit his 3 for 3 in what he wanted, his relaxed attitude towards competing at the biggest competition of any competitors life was an impressive sight.

Either way please vote on who you think you "Olympic Hero" was for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games in our poll in the right hand sidebar.

There is also a very good website debating the subject here.

The relay finals where always set to be eventful after the dramatic heats.

The men's final was pretty much sown up by the Jamaican team sure enough they performed and took the Olympic 4x100m crown along with destroying the world record set by the USA team back in the Olympic games in Barcelona '92.

Jamaica ran 37.10 seconds, breaking the previous mark of 37.40 in a new world record.

Trinidad and Tobago took the silver in 38.06 seconds and Japan won the bronze in 38.15.

The women's 4x100m relay was as dramatic as the heats. Jamaica were expected to land a sixth track and field gold

Team GB and Jamaica didn't manage to get the baton round the track and both did not finish the race, and final fell into the hands of Russia who won the Olympic gold medal in a time of 42.31, the slowest winning time in 32 years!

Belgium took silver and Nigeria took bronze.

Usain Bolt destroyed the whole field in the men's 100m and 200m's at the Beijing Olympic games! To win by such an impressive margin at the Olympic games at both of these blue ribboned events is certainly an impressive feat! Michael Johnson (previous 200m world record holder) said these victories eclipse the impressive 8 golds by Michael Phelps, a controversial statement, but as an ex track and field athlete he would say that wouldn't he :) ...

Either way however you look at it I think it was certainly an impressive feat for a human being to dominate the 100m by such a margin and show boat the last 15 meters! It's certainly a sight that will stick in everyone who saw it's mind forever! Also to break what was considered to be one of the most amazing world records of all time, Michael Johnson's 200m World Record too!

I loved watching Usain Bolt compete and marked him as an Olympic champion earlier this year when I saw him break the 100m world record and wrote a post on this blog earlier this year about it!

Well i'd like to know who, for you, is your Olympic Hero of the games out of Usain Bolt, and Michael Phelps!

Cast your vote to the right in the sidebar.

Michael Phelps celebrates his record breaking Olympic games experience by gracing the cover of the Sports Illustrated magazine. Michael Phelps has won the most gold medals of any Olympian ever! (a nice accolade!) Famously beating out swimmer Mark Spitz's record of seven gold medals at the 1972 Olympics in Munich.

Phelps's Sports Illustrated cover is a nice tribute to Spitz. In the picture Phelps strikes an identical pose to that of Spitz back in 1972.

In doing so Phelps manages to mark up yet another record! He became the swimmer that has appear the most on the cover of the popular American magazine's cover.

A huge congratulations to Rebecca Adlington on winning the Women's 800m freestyle getting her second Olympic gold medal and breaking the oldest standing swimming world record, getting a second Olympic gold medal in what was a truly brilliant swim for Great British swimming!

It looks good for London 2012, but I say savour the moment now! Four years is a long time and two Olympic gold medals is more than many would dream for.