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14-times Olympic gold medal winner Michael Phelps caught with cannabis pipe
News of the World ^ | Feb 2, 2009 | Georgina Dickinson

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 ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Front Page News; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: bong; michaelphelps; olympic
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To: rabidralph

Too old...sorry for him. lol.


101 posted on 02/01/2009 7:13:08 AM PST by napscoordinator
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To: romanesq

I didn’t say he was a creep. But even if I did, we all have different people we admire and that has been since the beginning of time which I doubt that will ever change. I respect your opinion of him.


102 posted on 02/01/2009 7:15:40 AM PST by napscoordinator
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To: napscoordinator

As a person and a swimmer, I respect what Phelps has accomplished.
Simply amazing.


103 posted on 02/01/2009 7:17:31 AM PST by romanesq
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To: SkyPilot
He is sampling tobacco through water pipe....
Big dealio
104 posted on 02/01/2009 7:17:35 AM PST by ßuddaßudd (7 days - 7 ways Guero >>> with a floating, shifting, ever changing persona....)
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To: Mark was here
"When was this (the photo) taken?"

Sherlockian question.

The sideburns look a little out of sync with today's hair styles, especially for someone back in swim training.

Leni

105 posted on 02/01/2009 7:17:55 AM PST by MinuteGal
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To: All

Geeeez the kid is 23 and he suddenly has millions and fame. It’s down time for training so he’s out having a good time. Yea , a bone head move I guess but ...what would you do at 23 with a million dollars? Guess I’d party and date a stripper too. HE”S a kid ..
Oh, but I bet all you baseball fans are all ok with the fact that your adult baseball heroes are booting up drugs in their arms to make them something they are not physically. Oh , that’s ok because it’s your sacred Yankees or Red Sox ...that’s ok right ? Frauds!


106 posted on 02/01/2009 7:19:03 AM PST by sonic109
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To: SkyPilot
Hookah is smoked from a water pipe as well as marijuana. Might we do what our founding fathers intended and give the man the benefit of the doubt (innocent until proven guilty if you will) before trashing his reputation? Hookah is a legal tobacco type substance and while smoking anything is stupid it doesn't mean Phelps was using illegal drugs.
107 posted on 02/01/2009 7:19:15 AM PST by The Anti-One (So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.)
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To: The Anti-One

the new rule is guilty until proven “democrat party”


108 posted on 02/01/2009 7:23:10 AM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: SkyPilot

Since Phelps collected more gold than the government in 2008, I say his private life is his own business.


109 posted on 02/01/2009 7:27:36 AM PST by BlazingArizona
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To: untwist
There is no smoke in the pipe.

By golly, there isn't!

When I was in college, the whole point was to get smoke in the tube :D. Have things really changed that much over the last three decades?

110 posted on 02/01/2009 7:28:47 AM PST by hellinahandcart
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To: hellinahandcart

For Christ’s sake we have a president that did hard drugs for years and they swept it under the rug.


111 posted on 02/01/2009 7:35:34 AM PST by snowman1
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To: SonnyBubba
Yuk. Id think more of him if it was a bong.

He is sucking on a device that someone found in a closet that some guy presumanly used. EEEW! Better a bong than a *ong.

112 posted on 02/01/2009 7:42:49 AM PST by Wilhelm Tell (True or False? This is not a tag line.)
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To: SkyPilot

Are you insane???


113 posted on 02/01/2009 7:52:40 AM PST by Doc Savage ("Are you saying Jesus can't hit a curve ball? - Harris to Cerrano - Major League)
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To: MetsJetsandNets
You're right - sorry.

Here she is: Caroline Pal.


114 posted on 02/01/2009 8:29:58 AM PST by SkyPilot
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To: Doc Savage

No.


115 posted on 02/01/2009 8:34:28 AM PST by SkyPilot
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To: hellinahandcart

I have college sons. They are successful in their own right but I am not naive in thinking they haven’t tried it. I can assure you the fundamentals of bong hits are just like they have always been.

This picture looks phony unless of course he was taking the Clinton approach to smoking marijuana.


116 posted on 02/01/2009 8:44:10 AM PST by untwist
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To: Lady GOP
No kidding. LOTS of people of all ages smoke pot. I know many. Though I don't indulge myself, I could care less if anyone else does. If they would legalize it, we could tax it and have plenty more money for lots more bailout bills.

I think it is stupid and makes you dumb, but hey, 23 year old guys do things like this. I really hate the media and I wonder who slipped them this picture?

117 posted on 02/01/2009 8:45:19 AM PST by auntyfemenist (If only FDR could come on TV again to encourage us.)
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To: SkyPilot

Wow, Caroline Pal is hot! Good for Michael!!


118 posted on 02/01/2009 8:50:01 AM PST by DTogo (I haven't left the GOP, the GOP left me.)
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To: chuck_the_tv_out

D’OPE


119 posted on 02/01/2009 8:57:31 AM PST by Danae (Amerikan Unity My Ass)
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To: SkyPilot
1. How do THEY know it's even him in that photo, and

2. Who cares if it is. I'd rather be around someone who is high than someone who is drunk.

Yes, I am on of those conservatives who think pot should be legal.

120 posted on 02/01/2009 9:00:18 AM PST by teenyelliott (Soylent green should be made outta liberals...)
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