Beijing Olympics
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well said Miss KittyThey say China needed the Olympics to show the world what they have.
I say the USA needed it to remind us what we have always had!!
I bet even the ones that do poorly in such an event have a stuffed head. .Maybe he'll settle down after all the talk shows and visits to the White House and whatever else.How much is speedo paying him if he goes 8 for 8?I hate to cast a shadow on such glory but we had dinner with good friends tonight and their daughter's boyfriend knows Michael Phelps and says he's an arrogant SOB who is very full of himself. His athletic prowess knows no bounds and apparently neither does his ego.
I don't honestly know how it could be otherwise given the media attention Olympic atheletes receive. They're fawned upon 24/7 so I can't imagine anyone Michael's age in his same situation, with his same talent, could not have a stuffed head. If he's the great guy he appears to be, he'll calm down and be his regular self when it's all over. His regular friends back home hope so.
Anyway I'm pulling for him.
I choose to take the tidbit that Mermy has shared about Michael Phelps with a grain of salt. I am going to let his record and how he comes across in interviews ( fabulously, I think) speak for him. Plus, he always looks for his mom in the stands.
Lord knows I have become cynical, but third hand info doesn't always cut it for me. 
I asked my husband the exact same thing.
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Thanks Minnie! This was driving me crazy last night. Very odd looking!
I choose to take the tidbit that Mermy has shared about Michael Phelps with a grain of salt. I am going to let his record and how he comes across in interviews ( fabulously, I think) speak for him. Plus, he always looks for his mom in the stands.
maybe there's some jealousy there in the third parties ? a little part of me says that any young man like him who loves his mom like he obviously does can't be all bad.
For someone who is supposedly completely full of himself, Phelps does not come off that way at ALL in interviews - and I have pretty low tolerance for that sort of thing.
The men's gymnasts (and almost every basketball and football player in the world) need to take some decorum lessons from him IMO.
The men's gymnasts (and almost every basketball and football player in the world) need to take some decorum lessons from him IMO.
I get a little misty every time I see M. Phelps look for his mom in the stands after his win. He seems like a good kid to me.
No kidding! That Jonathan Horton kid was getting on my nerves when they won the Bronze last night. The other guys were kind of obnoxious, but he took the cake. Even the basketball team didn't come across as that arrogant.
Was he the blonde "we're going to jump in the Yangtze river" guy?
The dark haired one (who looked like he ripped some calluses and had a bandaged hand) was the one I just wanted to slap. (Well, him and the ditz reporter who asked the swimmer why she was crying on the gold medal podium - um, how about because I just got an olympic gold medal?)
The blonde russian american guy w/ the amazing pommel horse routine was the one w/ most reason to be celebrating/talking big, not those 2!
The dark haired one (who looked like he ripped some calluses and had a bandaged hand) was the one I just wanted to slap. (Well, him and the ditz reporter who asked the swimmer why she was crying on the gold medal podium - um, how about because I just got an olympic gold medal?)
The blonde russian american guy w/ the amazing pommel horse routine was the one w/ most reason to be celebrating/talking big, not those 2!