【单选题】

When he won his third gold medal at his third successive Olympic Games, we______the man as if he were the greatest athlete we had ever seen: a superman, ______ , a demigod walking the earth.
A．(A) hymned … a nonpareil

B．(B) exasperated … a dabbler
C．(C) inveighed … a genius
D．(D) lauded … an obscurantist
E．(E) apostatized … a commoner