Michael Phelps has won an incredible 18 gold medals at the Olympics, including his last win of the 4x100-Meter Medley Relay at the London 2012 Olympics. After the Olympics in London came to an end, about a month ago, Phelps announced that he was retiring from swimming, and he also revelaed in some interviews that he would spend more time playing poker.
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Posted by dule-vu: they measur who will touch first omega touchpads and then they register results!in this case,omega was sponsor of phelps and they must bring him this medal to beat record of Spitz!
This could be true but the amount of negative publicity Omega gained with this event particularly, makes me think it wasn't worth it...
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today I read,that he swim like crazy on american championship in San Antonio!I dont know is he still on drugs or what,but he was faster for 1 second in same discipline 200 mix,then world champion from few days ago in Kazanj,Ryan Lochte!cant believe!
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Well he smokes pots he wins in swimming he wins in poker well he is one successful guys like him as a guy and he broke a lot of records but he is getting old should think of other means to make money there will always be some other guys who will take his place one day , so enjoy it anyway good luck have fun mate and also if you guys need some motivation look at him, work hard play hard lol, cheers good luck mate have fun!
Posted by dule-vu: today I read,that he swim like crazy on american championship in San Antonio!I dont know is he still on drugs or what,but he was faster for 1 second in same discipline 200 mix,then world champion from few days ago in Kazanj,Ryan Lochte!cant believe!
He was always faster than Lochte, that never was in question - but these new times he swam are sure suspicious. Altough every major competition he would have even on the US chamopionships were still in Kazan so who knows?
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well I dont need him for motivation in my life!from all person in life,he would be on one of last places!if I want to look at anybody,that would be Novak Djokovic!better sportsman and better person in real life,that anybody,not some druges american!
To be completely honest every kind of professional sport when there's a huge amount of money involved is full of athletes who are using legal/illegal ways to make their performance better so I think nothing is new here. Tennis players are using the usual stuff too.
