Is that the same watch? Leather band??
Posted on 01/31/2009 3:02:21 PM PST by LucyJo
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.
GOLDEN BOY: Phelps at Beijing Those dreams seemed the last thing on his mind when he puffed from the bong during two days of partying with students last November, a quiet time in the swimming calendar when athletes would not expect to get tested for drugs.
One party-goer who witnessed the star’s behaviour told the News of the World: “He was out of control from the moment he got there.
“If he continues to party like that I’d be amazed if he ever won any more medals again.”
Phelps’ aides went into a panic over our story and offered us a raft of extraordinary incentives not to run the bong picture.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsoftheworld.co.uk ...
Another reason to legalize pot, had he been caught with a sloe-gin fizz all that would have been questioned was his sexuality.
Doesn’t LOOK like him to me either.
His face is too short.
Agreed....zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...who cares....so he smoked some naturally growing weeds that when dried out and smoked can make a person laugh a lot and want to eat like there’s no tomorrow...
I think it’s comical that judgement will be coming from the millions who inhale “prescription” drugs daily to take the edge off of the stress yet here’s an ‘alleged’ picture of him using an herb to do the same and now HE’S the bad guy?
As Bill Walton would so eloquently say....Please....
WHAT?// THIS DEFINTELY DOESN’T LOOK LIKE HIM!
Seems like way too much hair as he seems to wear it short. But if he has turned into a dope smoking hippy, maybe he is growing it long.
Or alcohol.
Exactly.
Is that the same watch? Leather band??
That big BONG LOL!
I don’t think it’s him. This publication sounds like a tabloid trying to cause trouble just for the entertainment of it all....for them.
LMAO!
Can we say
“ PHOTOSHOP “ ?
What is so unfortunate about these Olympic athletes is that they work for one thing there whole life and that is winning a gold medal and once they accomplish their goal or fall short of their goal and they then say, “Now what?”
It is a very unbalanced life. Like Michael said all he did was “sleep, eat and swim.” Now that it is over and he has all this idle time he has nothing to accomplish.
I remember Mary Lou Retton said the same thing after she was done, she gained 40 lbs and no idea what to do after it was over.
I hope he learns from his mistakes because he is on a “self destruction” course. He has been in Vegas a lot living it up and trying to learn as much as possible about poker.
Hopefully this is a wake up call for him.
I’m not even sure it’s a photoshop. It just looks like a picture of “anydude” and somebody decided it looked enough like Michael Phelps to start the rumor.
The dell guy did not win 8 gold medals
I don’t think that’s him in the picture, and even it if it is, who cares. Hes a kid with millions, and gold medals out the wazoo, hes set for life!
Yep, it doesn’t look like him AND that’s why his ‘team’ made the offer to have him write a column for 3 years, promote the newspaper and have his sponsors run ads in the paper.
IBM has hired Phelps as their ‘motivational’ speaker - it will be great to hear his opinion on rating ‘Panama Red’ vs.
‘Beijing Yellow’.
LOL
Yep. Same watch.
I hope it isn’t him.
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