Olympian Michael Phelps Caught Smoking Bong

[rudemonk]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: foolya</div><div class="ubbcode-body">...in order to protect Phelps' dark secrets...
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hardly a 'dark' secret...I mean really.

[f0rTyLeGz]

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Tokers

lol

[Tropicana]

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This is similar to the controversy surrounding Canadian show jumping champion Eric Lamaze. He nearly blew up his career twice over cocain but he cleaned up his act and won a Gold medal last year.






<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">The kind of strength built on a career and a life fraught with challenges that more than once had him on a ride to self-destruction.

For most Canadians, Lamaze is better known for his faults away from the show jumping ring than the faults he compiles in it. But after more than a decade marked by turmoil, embarrassment and shame, Lamaze not only ranks among the world’s best equestrians, he stands a good chance of bringing Canada its first individual Olympic medal in the sport since fellow Quebecer Michel Vaillancourt in 1976. Still, the mere mention of his name would likely evoke responses ranging from “druggie” to “spoiled brat.”

Lamaze’s woes began prior to the 1996 Games in Atlanta when a drugs test turned up cocaine. He lost his place on the Canadian team going to Atlanta and received a four-year suspension, the penalty in those days. He was reinstated later that year when an arbitrator ruled that Lamaze’s personal story of growing up with a drug-dealing mother in Montreal and his emergence as a bright riding prospect mitigated the error of his ways…falling off the wagon at a party to celebrate his Olympic opportunity.

Second chance
That compassionate response was reflected in the show jumping community as well. Fellow riders, grooms and horse owners were willing to give him a second chance. He re-built his career, continued his climb up the rankings and by 2000 was once again about to be a key member of Canada’s Olympic equestrian team.

Then like a bad re-run, the country watched drugs undo his dream for the second time in four years. In a bizarre turn of events that summer, Lamaze was informed he’d failed another drugs test, this time for a banned stimulant. That meant a lifetime ban from the sport that had saved his life and it sent him down a path of despair. He contemplated suicide. The night he learned of his positive test, he joined his girlfriend at a party during a competition and while drunk and despondent, he smoked a cigarette laced with cocaine. Then, 48 hours later, the test result was expunged on appeal.

However, that 1996 positive test made Lamaze a targeted athlete and a doping official showed up at his house a few days after the party. Incredibly, after learning he’d won his case, he was facing another hearing when news came that he’d tested positive for cocaine, again.

That lifetime ban was back on the table when his new appeal went before the same arbitrator who’d ruled in Lamaze’s favour before. Once again, law professor Ed Ratushny accepted the rider’s story and overturned the suspension days prior to the Sydney Games in 2000. It didn’t much matter as the Canadian Olympic Committee decided to keep Lamaze off the team and the national media roasted him as a two-time cheater.

'Wow, this is something!’
That was almost eight years ago. In 2007, Lamaze became the first Canadian rider in 20 years to crack the top 10 in the world rankings and was the first North American rider to win more than a million dollars in prize money in one year. Almost a third of that came on one day last September when he captured the CN International, the richest single event in the sport. And he did it at Spruce Meadow, the place that once nurtured his burgeoning talent but had wanted to keep him out after his second test in 2000.

As Lamaze told me in a rare interview last fall, &quot;Even those people that wish I was under the ground and never came back are finding some passion in their heart and saying, ‘Wow, this is something!’&quot;
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Here is what he said about his problems after he won the gold:

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">And the man who has experienced some major highs and lows during his career wanted to lay some ghosts. &quot;The past is the past,&quot; he said, &quot;and if this doesn't make people forgive and forget then I don't know what will.....&quot;
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Phelps is probably bored. When you accomplish so much when you're so young, what do you do for an encore?

Maybe Eric should take the young Phelps under his wing and coach him.

[Wahalla]

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A horse rider coaching a swimmer.. makes sense.....

[X]

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white athlete duh something wrong/illegal, media sympathetic and make excuses, endorsers defend the athlete

lack athlete even gets into a hint a trouble, media crucify him and endorsers jump ship (and all waan sue the athlete)

Mi could see that Phelps has some serious skellentons in him closet. Mi just wander if a me alone notice how uncomfortable he is with the media and how its almost like someone who has a confession to make.. or feel he like the more spotlight he gets, the more something he has gotten away with may be exposed.
I wouldnt be surprised if his olympic performaces were drug enhanced.
But we will never know, will we.

[jah_yout]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: monk</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: foolya</div><div class="ubbcode-body">...in order to protect Phelps' dark secrets...
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hardly a 'dark' secret...I mean really. </div></div>

it's all so stupid;
why don't they ban alcohol and write big stories about someone caught drinking a beer
kisteet

[Tuff Gong]

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[quote]<span style="font-family: 'Courier New'">UPDATED February 3rd, 9:05AM*** Michael Phelps has so far emerged unscathed from the controversy created by the photo showing him smoking from a bong, with his sponsors still standing behind him. However, he still could face criminal charges if it's determined that he was smoking marijuana, which shouldn't be too difficult considering there's a photo and Phelps has already confessed:[/</span>quote]

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">UPDATE: South Carolina Sheriff Says Phelps Could Face Pot Charges</span>

[RichD]

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ridiculous

[loops]

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how could he possibly face criminal charges when there is no way they can prove what is in the pipe?

[Tuff Gong]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: loops</div><div class="ubbcode-body">how could he possibly face criminal charges when there is no way they can prove what is in the pipe? </div></div>

He said it was weed.

[Tuff Gong]

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<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/31/michael-phelps-bong-pictu_n_162842.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">
UPDATED: Phelps Talks Drug Use, 2012 Olympics (VIDEO)</a>

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">Kellogg's To Drop Phelps</span>

[Tuff Gong]

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<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">UPDATED: Phelps Suspended For Three Months By USA Swimming
Also Talks Drug Use (VIDEO)... Kellogg's To Drop Phelps</span>