I sure hope it doesn't happen, but I have a nagging feeling that Phelps will be a judge in the next Miss Universe competition. In the 70's, he'd also be a cameo in an episode of Love Boat.
I hope he gets gobs of endorsements, but I suspect his star power won't be longlasting.
Cheers,
Lavabe
Well, you may be right about the vodka.
Well, apparently Cincinnati Bengal wide receiver Chad Johnson thinks he's overrated. He said on PTI the other day that he could beat Phelps in a swimming race. Sure, so could I. If it was the 100m freestyle and I had about a 75 meter head start. And I'd still be trying to "out-touch" him at the wall.
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I about fell out of my chair reading a Chicago Tribune article this morning about how Michael Phelps isn't even in the top 5 Olympians of all time and that swimming is pathetically easy next to track and field. The rationale? That swimmers can compete in more than one race in a day, but running takes so much more out of you.
I gotta think this guy hasn't ever gotten in a pool without an inner tube in his life.
That's the beauty of our modern day "Commentators/Columinists/Bloggers, you don't actually have to have done the "thing" on which you comment and/or write about, you just have to have an opinion, no matter how asinine.
Back in the mid-80s, during the heady days of New Wave, I used to wear a button that said: "Nothing clever to say, just somewhere to say it."
How apropos of "news" outlets today...
See his finish at the end of the 100 Fly...overexposed, maybe? Overrated? Defintely not.
What a crock! I played football, was on the swim team, and ran track in high school. I found football to be the most demanding of the sports, both physically and mentally, swimming came in a very close second for the physical demands and I found track to be the second most mentally challenging sport. No way in the world I could put in the hours in a pool, that I put in on a track.
JLo thinks so:
Lopez, who appeared on "Good Morning America" Aug. 18 to discuss her preparations for the Malibu Triathlon, was overheard saying after the segment that she “couldn’t understand why everyone is talking about that swimmer,” according to a GMA source. “She couldn’t come up with (eight-time gold-medal winner Michael) Phelps’ name, and then she yammered on about how she was the one training for a triathlon just six months after giving birth, and how that was the big story right now, not ‘the swimmer.’ ”