Now Phelps Will Really Strike Gold

[Harpoon]

Yeah he eats what he needs to sustain that energy..

[fricnjay]

Pretty much and he still has very little body fat. Thats just goes to show you what working out hard will get you. You can eat whatever you want and still have a nice physique.

*starts swimming*

[AnthemZ]

Originally Posted by Meursault

I doubt it. Apparently he doesn't have much more in his life than his family and swimming, and besides that, he'll be young enough to compete in London four years from now.

It seems he's one of those rare extremely talented people of which you get one in a decade if that many at all.

He was A.D.D. and a little hyper, so his parents made his swim to burn off his hyperactivity! It's strange to think how many superstars there are out there, that are just considered another bad kid in school!

[Harpoon]

use that pool Holmes..

[AnthemZ]

Originally Posted by fricnjay

Pretty much and he still has very little body fat. Thats just goes to show you what working out hard will get you. You can eat whatever you want and still have a nice physique.

*starts swimming*

That's the main reason I started bike riding! Eat anything you want, then go ride HARD for 20 miles, and it's gone!!! Burned up in the furnace!

[Harpoon]

Bike riding is for fags that want an excuse to walk around in spandex with a potato shoved down the front of their pants..

[Meursault]

Originally Posted by AnthemZ

He was A.D.D. and a little hyper, so his parents made his swim to burn off his hyperactivity! It's strange to think how many superstars there are out there, that are just considered another bad kid in school!

yeah, Chris Kaman was labeled a school failure, too before his parents asked another doctor for his opinion and ended up dropping the ritalin and sending him to basketball practice instead to channel his energy.

Originally Posted by Harpoon

Bike riding is for fags that want an excuse to walk around in spandex with a potato shoved down the front of their pants..

potato? Pumpkin!

[AnthemZ]

Originally Posted by Harpoon

Bike riding is for fags that want an excuse to walk around in spandex with a potato shoved down the front of their pants..

Try to follow me on a mountain bike, and we'll see who the fag is!

[Harpoon]

I'll run over you on my moped...

[Nemowork]

Has Spitz got over his hissy fit yet, last i saw he was refusing to even speak about Phelps.

[Harpoon]

What? I never heard that... Do you have a link?

[TheLancinator]

Originally Posted by Nemowork

Has Spitz got over his hissy fit yet, last i saw he was refusing to even speak about Phelps.

Originally Posted by Harpoon

What? I never heard that... Do you have a link?

From what I heard, he wasn't mad AT Phelps, he was mad at the US Swim team and the USOC for not inviting Spitz to go over to the Olympics. He wanted to go over on their dime to watch and see if Phelps was gonna break the record.

[Nemowork]

Dont know about that, from the sound of it for the last 20 odd years he's been the big medal star of the US and he wasnt too pleased to be loosing his top spot, then again it was a FOX news report so theyre always a little oversensationalised.

[Meursault]

I read an interview with Mark Spitz the other day where he said he considered Phelps' achievement much superior to his, I think he said something along the lines of Phelps' medal collection was tantamount to a successful mars landing.

[TheLancinator]

Mark Spitz: Michael Phelps is the greatest Olympic athlete ever
Former record-holder gracious as Phelps grabs the glory; Lezak, Torres score again



His hair is gray, the 70s mustache is history, he’s taking medication to control his cholesterol, and depending when you ask, iconic Jewish Olympian Mark Spitz is really pleased with the way the U.S. Olympics swimming team has fared this Summer.

Spitz told AFP he felt snubbed about not being asked to attend the 2008 Olympics to watch Michael Phelps attempt to break his record of seven gold medals.

“I never got invited. You don’t go to the Olympics just to say, I am going to go. Especially because of who I am....I am going to sit there and watch Michael Phelps break my record anonymously? That’s almost demeaning to me. It is not almost—it is.”

Spitz also says he could have won eight gold medals if given the chance. “I won seven events. If they had the 50m freestyle back then, which they do now, I probably would have won that too,” he said. And Spitz thinks Phelps will succeed, “he’s almost identical to me. He’s a world-record holder in all these events, so he is dominating the events just like I did,” Spitz said. “He reminds me of myself.”

Other than to pose for an odd picture with Phelps, Spitz does not have much interaction with the superstar. “He’s not sitting down with me asking for advice,” he said.

“They voted me one of the top five Olympians in all time. Some of them are dead. But they invited the other ones to go to the Olympics, but not me,” he said. “Yes, I am a bit upset about it.”

On August 14, Spitz appeared on NBC’s Today Show where he clarified his statement and his pride in Michael Phelps:

It’s about time that somebody else takes the throne. And I’m very happy for him. I really, truly am...I was working with a corporate sponsor who elected not to bring their US contingent over to China, and they piled on more work for me here in the United States, which was great. So I wasn’t able to get to the Olympics and watch Michael in the first couple of days. And they thought, some of these reporters, that I was supposed to be invited by some entity, and I told them that that wasn’t really the case, that doesn’t happen that way. And so, I’m sort of disappointed that I wasn’t there, but, you know, that interview somehow took a different turn, and I’ve done hundreds and hundreds of them and I’ve been true to form about the way I feel about Michael, and he’s doing a great job for the United States and inspiring a lot of great performances by the other team members.

Also on August 14, 2008, in an interview aired on Los Angeles KNBC-4’s morning news show, Today in L.A., Spitz was quoted saying he does believe that, “Michael Phelps is the greatest Olympic athlete ever.”

On August 15, 2008, as part of an interview on NBC, Spitz said that he felt Phelps’ performance in the 100 fly in Beijing was “epic”. Spitz paid this compliment to Phelps just two hours after his record-tying seventh gold medal during a live joint interview with Bob Costas:

You know, Bob and Michael, I wondered what I was going to say at this monumental time, when it would happen and who I would say it to, and of course I thought I was going to say it to you for some time now. But, it’s the word that comes to mind, “epic”. What you did tonight was epic, and it was epic for the whole world to see how great you really are. I never thought for one moment that you were out of that race and contention, because I watched you at Athens win the race by similarALTTEXT margins, and 18 months ago at the World’s by similar margins. And, you know, that is a tribute to your greatness. And now the whole world knows. We are so proud of you Michael here in America, and we are so proud of you and the way that you handle yourself, and you represent such an inspiration to all the youngsters around the world. You know, you weren’t born when I did what I did, and I’m sure that I was a part of your inspiration, and I take that as a full compliment. And they say that you judge one’s character by the company you keep, and I’m happy to keep company with you. And you have a tremendous responsibility for all those people that you are going to inspire over the next number of years, and I know that you will wear the crown well. Congratulations, Mike.

Spitz’s remarks came after another record-breaking anchor sprint by Jewish gold medal winnner Jason Lezak (photo, right) helped Phelps win his record-breaking eight gold. Lezak had earlier earned a bronze in his first individual medal win.