Phelps is going down ....

we would probably all be saying how Phelps must have taken a bong hit just before his race or something. Funny, but so true. The non-swimming sports journalist seems to generate these type of stories far too often. Now it's all about the suits. www.nytimes.com/.../30swim.html Phelps Rebounds Amid Swimsuit Controversy Phelps’s loyalty to a swimsuit that many people now consider inferior should not be too surprising. He has had the same coach, Bowman, since he was 12, the same prerace routine since he was 13, and has stuck with the 200 fly, a backbreaking event, since making his first Olympic team in the event in 2000, at age 15. Earlier this summer, after it became apparent that the new wave of swimsuits was building to a tsunami that would wipe out the record books, Bowman considered asking Phelps, 24, to try out one of the new suits. “Honestly, I had a temptation to put it on him in practice,” Bowman said, “just so I would know for sure in my mind what the difference was. But then I thought no, because once he finds out it might just create a conflict.”

we would probably all be saying how Phelps must have taken a bong hit just before his race or something. Funny, but so true. The non-swimming sports journalist seems to generate these type of stories far too often. Now it's all about the suits. www.nytimes.com/.../30swim.html Phelps Rebounds Amid Swimsuit Controversy Phelps’s loyalty to a swimsuit that many people now consider inferior should not be too surprising. He has had the same coach, Bowman, since he was 12, the same prerace routine since he was 13, and has stuck with the 200 fly, a backbreaking event, since making his first Olympic team in the event in 2000, at age 15. Earlier this summer, after it became apparent that the new wave of swimsuits was building to a tsunami that would wipe out the record books, Bowman considered asking Phelps, 24, to try out one of the new suits. “Honestly, I had a temptation to put it on him in practice,” Bowman said, “just so I would know for sure in my mind what the difference was. But then I thought no, because once he finds out it might just create a conflict.”