Sports Illustrated names Ryan as one of the top 8 male Olympic athletes of 2010

Sports Illustrated writer Brian Cazeneuve named Ryan as one of the top 8 great male athletes for Olympic sports in 2010. Ryan was one of 3 Americans who made the list and the only swimmer selected. The entire article can be read here:

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/web/COM1180262/index.htm

Ryan Lochte USA, swimming

In winning his second consecutive award as world swimmer of the year, Lochte, 26, captured six gold medals at the Pan-Pacific Championships in Irvine. Lochte won both individual medleys, the 200-meter backstroke and freestyle races and took golds in both freestyle relays. At the World Short-Course Championships in Dubai later in the year, Lochte won six golds and a silver to confirm his outstanding season. Lochte also beat Michael Phelps in the 200 IM at the U.S. National Championships, marking the first time he defeated Phelps, head-to-head, at a major national or international meet. Lochte now has the world record, in both short and long-course competition, in the 200 IM, a race Phelps once owned.