Due to the lengthy discussions about the Phelps situation, let's make this one short and sweet!
What's your opinion?
1. Don't give a ****.
2. Phelps is just another kid... kids do stupid things.
3. Phelps should learn from this and speak to kids about drunk driving.
4. Phelps should be prosected to the fullest extent and lose sponsorships.
5. Undecided.
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Touche, aquageek...however, I wasn't comparing drunk driving to getting cancer, I was trying to compare how Lance Armstrong didn't advocate cancer research until he got cancer, same way Michael Phelps didn't speak out against drinking and driving until he got drunk and drove. Not saying it wasn't a choice or anything. Please accept my apologies if it came across like that.
Kyra, good luck on your finals! I know we're keeping you distracted....I, personally, missed class today (alarm just didn't quite want to go off this morning at 5)...I'm such a loser, hehe.
Fred, welcome to the fire! I like what you said; you seem to have a very good understanding what we're trying to talk about.
For everybody out there who just browses by and takes a look at all this, let me make it clear, one last time; WE ARE NOT CONDONING WHAT MICHAEL PHELPS DID. Period. That's not even up for discussion. We just like the way he's handling himself. There's kind of a higher bar for him, since nobody this high up has ever done something like this. In any other sport, this wouldn't be such a discussion (hel-LO! Kobe Bryant, anyone?) and we'd be applauding the guy that said, um, yeah, I did it, I'm sorry, please don't drink and drive, instead of frying his ass for doing it at all. Swimmers, as a community, are like the children of rich parents who turn their nose up at the YMCA, and swim at the country club instead. It's not that we seem more prejudiced (because we kinda are), it's that we really don't know any better because we've been on the better side of the track.
Touche, aquageek...however, I wasn't comparing drunk driving to getting cancer, I was trying to compare how Lance Armstrong didn't advocate cancer research until he got cancer, same way Michael Phelps didn't speak out against drinking and driving until he got drunk and drove. Not saying it wasn't a choice or anything. Please accept my apologies if it came across like that.
Kyra, good luck on your finals! I know we're keeping you distracted....I, personally, missed class today (alarm just didn't quite want to go off this morning at 5)...I'm such a loser, hehe.
Fred, welcome to the fire! I like what you said; you seem to have a very good understanding what we're trying to talk about.
For everybody out there who just browses by and takes a look at all this, let me make it clear, one last time; WE ARE NOT CONDONING WHAT MICHAEL PHELPS DID. Period. That's not even up for discussion. We just like the way he's handling himself. There's kind of a higher bar for him, since nobody this high up has ever done something like this. In any other sport, this wouldn't be such a discussion (hel-LO! Kobe Bryant, anyone?) and we'd be applauding the guy that said, um, yeah, I did it, I'm sorry, please don't drink and drive, instead of frying his ass for doing it at all. Swimmers, as a community, are like the children of rich parents who turn their nose up at the YMCA, and swim at the country club instead. It's not that we seem more prejudiced (because we kinda are), it's that we really don't know any better because we've been on the better side of the track.
