This is a load of crap! Tell me one (ONE) quote of him "whining" about the suit? Please show me. When you make blanket statements like this please back it up. Give me a break.
That's it - I don't see where he is whining about the suit. A lot of whining has been attributed to Phelps but from the video and news reports he's a guy who lost in a race he's owned for sometime and was not happy to be 2nd. He reacted like Roddick did at Wimbledon (though Andy wasn't the favorite there) - he really didn't want to be there. Phelps congratulated Biederman, said he swam the better race and that the swimmer beat him not the suit. I know a lot of people will call bs - that Phelps and Bowman are just playing the game, but no one really knows because they were not and are not in Rome.
Speedo paid Phelps a lot of money and he performed - if he had jumped ship, wouldn't that have been a more egregious and cynical move. He stayed with the suit he had, and tried to prove the swimmer was more important than the suit. I'm still not convinced that he wasn't angry that he lost because he wasn't fully prepared for that race.
This is a load of crap! Tell me one (ONE) quote of him "whining" about the suit? Please show me. When you make blanket statements like this please back it up. Give me a break.
That's it - I don't see where he is whining about the suit. A lot of whining has been attributed to Phelps but from the video and news reports he's a guy who lost in a race he's owned for sometime and was not happy to be 2nd. He reacted like Roddick did at Wimbledon (though Andy wasn't the favorite there) - he really didn't want to be there. Phelps congratulated Biederman, said he swam the better race and that the swimmer beat him not the suit. I know a lot of people will call bs - that Phelps and Bowman are just playing the game, but no one really knows because they were not and are not in Rome.
Speedo paid Phelps a lot of money and he performed - if he had jumped ship, wouldn't that have been a more egregious and cynical move. He stayed with the suit he had, and tried to prove the swimmer was more important than the suit. I'm still not convinced that he wasn't angry that he lost because he wasn't fully prepared for that race.
