#12431 | posted by  Yubi | 8 years, 7 months ago on Why Michael Phelps isn't much popular in Japan?

I think the Japanese swimmers like Hagino stole the attention of swimming fans, and the general fan had Yoshida, Uchimura, and Ai-chan. Bolt had more attention because there was no competing player from Japan in the short distance track events (the success of the relay team was quite unexpected), and well, he is the fastest man on Earth!