We had a spirited debate in the newsroom yesterday whether to put yet another Michael Phelps photo on today’s front page.

The director of our photo staff, Larry Coyne, pushed to use a photo of another Olympic athlete, to avoid the monotony of a sixth straight front page with Phelps’ picture on it. I shared that desire.

But night photo editor Elie Gardner and page designer Norma Klingsick thought that could be accomplished by using multiple Olympic photos, including Phelps. Klingsick felt strongly that omitting Phelps would be missing the biggest plot line of these Olympics.

Your comments to yesterday’s Editors’ Desk question mostly shared that point of view.

So, we ran three faces — Phelps, James Blake and Carmelo Anthony.

A compromise, wimping out, or the right thing to do?