单项选择题

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、 hymned … a nonpareil
B、 exasperated … a dabbler
C、 inveighed … a genius
D、 lauded … an obscurantist
E、 apostatized … a commoner