[raybbr]

"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," Spitz told AFP in Hong Kong.

"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."

Maybe they didn't want his ego to take over the events?

[Dianna]

Maybe they didn't want his ego to take over the events?

I'm torn. His was a great achievement, but the ego is obnoxious as heck.