5 races. 5 gold. 5 world records.
Unfrigginbelievable.
Unfrigginbelievable.
Why are these races live for damn near everyone else in the country but the west coast? No offense to mens gymnastics, but I would much rather watch Phelps pursuit of history than chinese men doing gymnastics.
If you're wondering why we're not getting live coverage three hours earlier, it's fairly simple. NBC can charge more for advertising during prime time, when more people are watching. The audience at 5 p.m., when the only sport most people are concerned with is freeway negotiation, is smaller than it is later in the evening, when we're home and glued to the couch. More people means a bigger audience, which means more expensive advertising rates, which means more money for NBC.
Tell me what you want but Phelps isn't clean (like most uber-succesful pro athletes).
There are always methods to enhance your perfomance which can't be detected.
Tell me what you want but Phelps isn't clean (like most uber-succesful pro athletes).
There are always methods to enhance your perfomance which can't be detected.
Phelps is just good. Not enhanced...just fanatical about working out, training and improving. he's DRIVEN, not drugged.
Or is Tiger Woods not clean? Jordan? Kobe? Some guys just take the job far more seriously than anyone else, and believe in working their asses to the bone to win...combine that with sick talent and there you go.
Yeah and Lance Armstrong was also clean.
/sarcasm
Well it wouldn't stun me if Phelps cheated but I also suspect if he did there'd be competitors out there saying so. In Lance's case there's been so many reports from ex teammates, coaches, competitors, masseuses etc that frankly I can't fathom how anybody can believe Lance anymore.
With Phelps admittedly swimming is only high profile once every 4 years, but you don't hear anything. Torres on the other hand has been accused of doping for years now, she was accused in her mid 30's and still is now.
You never know but the thing with Phelps is he doesn't look different which is usually one of the tell tale signs.
co-sign
Dream your dream of dope-free serial Olympic Gold medalists in sports like swimming, athletics or weight-lifting or just cope with what professional sports have been like since at least the mid sixties.
5 races. 5 gold. 5 world records.
Unfrigginbelievable.
6 races. 6 gold. 6 world records.
Wow. It is getting surreal.
Amy Van Dyken can't stand Spitz, from her own personal experiences with him. She was ragging on him on the radio here this morning (she's on a local a.m. morning show here)
Yeah, I hear all the people born that year are a bunch of jackasses, too.I almost hated to bring it up but yahoo had a big article on him yesterday. he basically said if they had the 50 free in 1972 he would have won 8 golds anyways. That it's insulting that they didn't fly him to the Olympics to be there in case Phelps gets 8, a bunch of other self serving things. He really comes off as arrogant. Great swimmer for sure but he is acting like Mercury Morris last year when the Pats were trying to go unbeaten like the 72 Dolphins.
Maybe it's something about 1972?
I almost hated to bring it up but yahoo had a big article on him yesterday. he basically said if they had the 50 free in 1972 he would have won 8 golds anyways. That it's insulting that they didn't fly him to the Olympics to be there in case Phelps gets 8, a bunch of other self serving things. He really comes off as arrogant. Great swimmer for sure but he is acting like Mercury Morris last year when the Pats were trying to go unbeaten like the 72 Dolphins.
Spitz could have gone about it differently, but essentially, he's right.
Until Phelps, Spitz was the greatest swimmer in Olympic history. The USOC or US Swimming couldn't extend Spitz a formal invitation and pay his way to Beijing? Spitz is supposed to pay his own way and then sit up in the nosebleed seats somewhere by himself? That is insulting for, until now, the greatest swimmer in history.
Spitz should have perhaps been a bit more gracious and humble, but the way he was treated by the USOC is shameful, IMO. Our society seems to expect the old record-holders to show up and "pass the torch", but that doesn't mean we have to diminish the accomplishments of the old guard.
Spitz could have gone about it differently, but essentially, he's right.
Until Phelps, Spitz was the greatest swimmer in Olympic history. The USOC or US Swimming couldn't extend Spitz a formal invitation and pay his way to Beijing? Spitz is supposed to pay his own way and then sit up in the nosebleed seats somewhere by himself? That is insulting for, until now, the greatest swimmer in history.
Spitz should have perhaps been a bit more gracious and humble, but the way he was treated by the USOC is shameful, IMO. Our society seems to expect the old record-holders to show up and "pass the torch", but that doesn't mean we have to diminish the accomplishments of the old guard.
It's probably because he's a jackass. Some athletes personalities (rick barry) kind of push them away from things that would normally be done. If he was a gracious, "plays well with others" type guy, they probably would have thought to invite him. Just speculating, of course.