Phelps is going down ....

So Cavic gets the sportsmanship credit over Phelps for shaking his hand in the water vs. a few minutes later? What about the cockamamie conspiracy theory about how the timing system didn't work for one heat out of the thousands at the Olympics? We're not talking about Conspiracies or last year's race (THEY may well be, but we are not). Yes, we're talking about sportsmanship in the pool (competitors in the same water.......) or on the court (Tennis.......net.......handshake.......then trophy presentation then interviews). I want to see the natural and spontaneous sportsmanship of the athlete, not what their P.R. person tells them to say at the ceremony or interviews. I guess somebody missed the part where we try to teach our kids (and ourselves) some manners in that, after the race, you shake the hands of the two swimmers on either side of you (or to only one side, if one has sandbagged well) regardless of the result....... Somewhere else someone said that now the Phelps haters are coming out of the woodwork, or some such. Where does my hatred of Phelps manifest itself? I don't hate the guy at all. I admire the pure athlete in him.

So Cavic gets the sportsmanship credit over Phelps for shaking his hand in the water vs. a few minutes later? What about the cockamamie conspiracy theory about how the timing system didn't work for one heat out of the thousands at the Olympics? We're not talking about Conspiracies or last year's race (THEY may well be, but we are not). Yes, we're talking about sportsmanship in the pool (competitors in the same water.......) or on the court (Tennis.......net.......handshake.......then trophy presentation then interviews). I want to see the natural and spontaneous sportsmanship of the athlete, not what their P.R. person tells them to say at the ceremony or interviews. I guess somebody missed the part where we try to teach our kids (and ourselves) some manners in that, after the race, you shake the hands of the two swimmers on either side of you (or to only one side, if one has sandbagged well) regardless of the result....... Somewhere else someone said that now the Phelps haters are coming out of the woodwork, or some such. Where does my hatred of Phelps manifest itself? I don't hate the guy at all. I admire the pure athlete in him.