"A" writes in about Michael Phelps...
"You mean that Michael Phelps is a normal 23 year old kid? Seriously?! Sounds like the media trying to create a controversy out of nothing (basically taking a page from the ESPN handbook).
Let’s see, he just accomplished a feat that no other human being ever has, and did it by forfeiting any semblance of a normal life, spending most of his waking hours in a pool with no one but a not-so-attractive older man with a whistle barking orders at him. Suddenly, he’s on the cover of every magazine across the globe, has cash literally falling out of his pockets, and all the hot chicks who once thought he was a great big dork, are throwing their panties at him. Yeah, I think he’s making up for lost time. And I also think he’s earned that right.
Besides, it’s not like pot is a performance enhancing drug, unless you count the 24-hour convenience store dash for microwave burritos and bags of Frito Lay and Hostess products.
Twenty-three years old? I barely remember 23 three years old, except that I had an awful lot of fun that year!"
Couldn't have said it better myself.
