Thread: Summer Olympics 2008

Originally Posted by Thnikkaman

Considering that those suits are like being bound tight, I don't blame him.

Mmmmmmmmm Phelps body! Like a lean tasty schexy greyhound swimmer boy!

Originally Posted by Kapaibro

Mmmmmmmmm Phelps body! Like a lean tasty schexy greyhound swimmer boy!

Think about it swimming for 400 meters how much stamina the guy must have..

Of course we all know what water does to the body..

Originally Posted by Jrwiz

Think about it swimming for 400 meters how much stamina the guy must have..

Of course we all know what water does to the body..

23 years old, and all that stamina, and he has HUGE feet!






Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm?????????????????

Originally Posted by Jrwiz

Think about it swimming for 400 meters how much stamina the guy must have..

Of course we all know what water does to the body..

Makes it wet???

Originally Posted by broncogirler

Makes it wet???

wetttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt

Originally Posted by Kapaibro

Mmmmmmmmm Phelps body! Like a lean tasty schexy greyhound swimmer boy!

He moves in the water like a dolphin. Oh, excuse me. A WET dolphin.

Originally Posted by broncogirler

Makes it wet???

shrivels most skin.. you know prune like

Oh my...

Originally Posted by Jrwiz

shrivels most skin.. you know prune like

Ya. Like elephant skin.

MB should try out in 2012 for the clean and jerk

Talk about one cocky mo-fo...
http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/new...=afp&type=lgns

Spitz, once the star, upset over Beijing snub

by Polly Hui

HONG KONG (AFP) - US swim legend Mark Spitz won't be on hand in Beijing if Michael Phelps breaks his record of seven gold medals at a single Olympics—because, he says, no one bothered to invite him.

Spitz said the International Olympic Committee, a US television network or FINA—the international body that governs world swimming—should have brought him to the Games this year, with Phelps making a go at his record.

"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."

Spitz became one of the most famous athletes in the world at the 1972 Munich Olympics, winning seven gold medals—with seven world records—in what many consider to be one of the greatest achievements in all of sport.

Phelps is aiming to better that mark in Beijing, hoping to bring home eight golds. And Spitz, now 58 and grey and without his trademark moustache, cannot understand why he wasn't asked along to see the show.

"They voted me one of the top five Olympians in all time. Some of them are dead. But they invited the other ones to go to the Olympics, but not me," he said. "Yes, I am a bit upset about it."

Now a stockbroker and motivational speaker, Spitz also thinks he could have won eight golds himself in Munich if only he had had the chance.

"I won seven events. If they had the 50m freestyle back then, which they do now, I probably would have won that too," he said.

Spitz, whose brief stint in show business in the 1970s never quite matched his success in the pool, said he attended the Athens Olympics four years ago—when Phelps also tried to break the record.

"They did not once put my face on television," he recalled. "But as soon as the swimming was over, and Michael Phelps didn't break my record, every time I went to beach volley, they put my face on the volleyballs."

Spitz said it would have been a great idea if he could be the one presenting the gold medals to Phelps, who has for years been candid about his ambition to eclipse the mark of seven golds.

And Spitz thinks Phelps will succeed—for one very good reason.

"He's almost identical to me. He's a world-record holder in all these events, so he is dominating the events just like I did," Spitz said. "He reminds me of myself."

He is the only person in the world that needs a invitation to go over there? Everyone else boughta ticket and went..

it is demeaning to him what a crybaby.. The Fina, or Olympics do not owe him anything.. Been reading to many of his scrapbooks IMO..

Originally Posted by Jrwiz

it is demeaning to him what a crybaby.. The Fina, or Olympics do not owe him anything.. Been reading to many of his scrapbooks IMO..

I thought the same thing...however, the one thing I would say, is if they invited (and who knows actually invited them) the other four top Olympians and not him, that is a bit of a snub...but, yeah, kind of crying...dude...if you want to be there, be there...

He sounds like a dick

British diver Blake Aldridge has pointed the finger of blame at his young partner Tom Daley following the pair's eighth and last place finish in the Olympic 10m synchronised diving final.

Aldridge, 26, believes any hopes of winning a medal at the Water Cube in Beijing were dashed by a nervy and below-par performance from Daley, the youngest competitor at the Games at just 14 years of age.

"I didn't blow anything, so I can go home happy," Aldridge told the BBC.

"Unfortunately it's a partnership, you both have to be on the top of your game. I wasn't on top of my game but Tom was nowhere near the top of his.

"Tom was very nervous, more so than ever before. I think he really struggled to get through the competition, and as his partner it was hard for me to get up there and try and ease him into it.

"Unfortunately for me, it didn't work today."

Daley has attracted intense interest in Beijing after having risen to stardom by winning the individual European title and becoming Britain's second youngest male Olympian.

But Aldridge believes the youngster suffered an attack of nerves during the event, which culminated in a spat between the pair before the sixth and final dive.

"He had a pop at me before the last dive, when we were sitting down," Aldridge said.

"I saw my mum in the audience and I asked her to give me a call and Tom went to me, 'Why are you on the phone? We're still in the competition and we've got another dive to do.'

"That's just Thomas - he's over-nervous and that's how it was today. Thomas should not be worrying about what I'm doing, but today he was worrying about everyone and everything and that to me is really the sole reason why he didn't perform today."

While Aldridge will now head home, Daley retains a chance of winning a medal in Beijing, and will compete in the individual 10m platform event in 10 days' time.

Aldridge added: "Tom's lucky that he has got another chance and I hope he takes a lot of experience from this and that it stands him in good stead.

"Unfortunately I don't have another chance."

http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/110820...ed-defeat.html

Yeah mate, that's really classy. Blame the 14 year old. I watched the diving, and both of them did stuff wrong.

It's called PAIRS diving for a reason.