Posted on 02/01/2009 3:43:51 AM PST by SkyPilot
THIS is the astonishing picture which could destroy the career of the greatest competitor in Olympic history.
In our exclusive photo Michael Phelps, who won a record EIGHT gold medals for swimming at the Beijing games last summer, draws from a bong.
The glass pipes are generally used to smoke cannabis.
And after sporting chiefs announced laws which mean four-year bans for drug-taking, Phelps’ dreams of adding to his overall 14 gold medal tally at the 2012 games in London could already be OVER.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsoftheworld.co.uk ...
"Start with three sandwiches of fried eggs, cheese, lettuce, tomato, fried onions, and mayonnaise; add one omelet, a bowl of grits, and three slices of French toast with powdered sugar; then wash down with three chocolate chip pancakes."
What he did after he smoked his crown.
Bong hits for Jesus?
LOL Teachers are such idiots at times. Michael is clearly an Kinesthetic learner, he needs his hands on things to learn, reading or listening does not work for him. LOTS of people are like that and the idiot public school system refuses to recognize that people learn differently. Some by listening- Aural, some by seeing- Visual, others by hands on- Kinesthetic. Kinesthetic learners are considered ADHD kids a LOT of the time. Really they just learn differently. Your tax dollars at work (groan).
LLS
:-) I enjoyed that.
LLS
I think it has a lot more to do with the parents and who they are than what the teachers interpretation is. Some of these teachers are too judgemental.
Exsqueeze me?????
They (the media) are very good at ruining people or attempting to. I think it is not a good idea for an Olympian but I dont believe in crucifying people for mistakes. God knows I dont want people to judge me soley on errors Ive made. I think they should cut him some slack on his road to adulthood and hopefully it is a lesson learned.
Google the phrase.
Mark
Well I hope that the IOC takes away HER gold medals for swimming too!
Mark
I thought the IOC only bans performance-enhancing drugs.
Now there’s some bodacious pals!
When are we going to realize that our country and its businesses do not have the funds for drug testing any longer. GeeWhiz(no pun intended), just think that when these tests are no longer required(and under Obama, I think they will be going away)we actually may have some smart people working in places like banks,department stores, etc). Not Wal-mart stupid anymore, hey I got a job at Walmart and I can’t spell America but I did pass a drug test. Has anyone noticed over the years that once the drug testing phase began, industries suddenly were filled with some low rent people and ignorant to boot??? Was the testing the correlation between the two???
The pro cycling tour is an altogether different animal than your swimmers who are basically under the NCAA until the olympics come around
Neither did I. Their menus are all in English......
One of the problems with the Zero Tolerance craze is that it fails to distinguish between when people make some minor, dumb mistake vs. when they do something that is bad in a major way. It seems to be geared toward making it impossible for a person to recover from a minor mistake.
Hope you don't mind if I answer too.
Guy in the photo looks beefier than Michael Phelps. Yes, I'm aware everyone is saying he "gained weight" after the Olympics, but I don't know too many guys who gain a lot of weight in their necks that fast.
The guy in the photo is darker-complected. If Michael Phelps was pasty-white at the end of the summer, why would he have a tan on November 6 (when this photo was supposedly taken)?
None of his identifiable facial characteristics are on display in that photo. His forehead and hairline are covered by a cap, his mouth's inside the bong, his chin is tucked in and down. Yes this fellow in the picture has ears that stick out. But since they're in profile, you can't really say for sure that those are Michael Phelps' ears.
My husband said "Check out his hands, the guy has really freaky hands" (which I had never noticed), but he and I both looked at the BIG pic available at the NOTW website and didn't see anything particularly freaky about the hands.
Don't even get me started about whether I think the story is plausible. "Secret girlfriend?" Give me a break. If I were going to keep a girlfriend secret, I think I'd keep the STRIPPER a secret, not a college girl.
There you go. Just a few reasons why I'm completely unconvinced. Now, if someone can prove he wears a tacky blingy watch like the one in the photo, I'll think about changing my mind.
It looks the person in the photo is just getting ready to light the bong. Which is probably why there isn’t any smoke in the bong, YET.
Supposedly this pic was taken after the olympics, during down time, prior to starting training again.
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