I have an 8 year old on a swim team that looks up to Michael Phelps as someone that has done something amazing. Phelps is a role model to my swimmer as I am sure that Phelps is a role model to a lot of young swimmers. Kids look to people like Phelps and think that they can accomplish what he has accomplished. Hopefully this blows over because I do not want to have a discussion with Lauren to explain why if drugs are so bad then how did Michael Phelps accomplish what he has accomplished when he is doing drugs.

I completely agree with Bazooka Joes earlier comments. Phelps is just another human prone to mistakes and that there is another lesson hidden in this. Maybe he doesn't want to be a role model but by virtue of what he has accomplished, he is and needs to watch his conduct.

On a lighter note he could still be appear on a cereal box

WEEDIES:-)
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I havent, and I am soon to be 23. Hes got a reputation to uphold. Stupid thing to do IMO. Why risk your rep and or lots of money worth of endorsements?
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Looks like he picked up a new endorsement over this ....

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get a few of the wrestlers there...should make moving that bed out pretty easy....
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Now we know why he eats 10,000+ calories a day. :-) It's unfortunate. It could have cost him his $5 million+ in sponsorship.
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My friend Brian was trying to pick up her TV, he was struggling to carry it and Vince said, "Move out of the way..." and carried it himself.
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He does not swim for endorsements and never asked to be a role model. Just as some companies won't want to be associated with Phelps, there will be a whole bunch of companies that will want to. The persona that he has now created also has cache.

Phelps is an international icon, and there's plenty of World and Euro brands that aren't concerned about his private matters at all. Some sponsors are using his past time as reason to sever their relationships, while it is really that they want to cut costs and this is a good excuse to save.

He is a swimmer first, and he should not lose sight on that. I would be more concerned with his drunk driving as that is way more serious than smoking pot at a party.
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Well, at least swiss army can use that pic to plug the watch he's wearing....
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vince was on the juice back then I'm willing to bet. Steph is married to one of the wrestlers now but she's looked better
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Corey (sp) is the daughter I knew. For sure he took steroids (perhaps for decades), but I do not consider that a negative. I assume she moved back to CT, my friend was closer to her than I was.
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He is sponsored by Omega, but I can't tell if that is a Planet Ocean with a diamond bezel?
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I never said or meant to imply that him being on roids was a bad or negative thing. I don't really care about that, I was just saying that's why he was able to move thigns so well. vince is an amazing business man no doubt
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The one positive thing I saw was that he owned up to it. He didn't pull a big smoke and mirror show that would have lasted for weeks. Yes, he made a mistake. He apologized. He will lose money on this and he knows it. His real friends and family will stick by him. He is the greatest swimmer I have ever seen, but I don't consider him a role model. I consider him the greatest swimmer I've ever seen. All of us have made mistakes, we just don't have the international media looking for them.:-)
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Ya know, his stardom was fading slowly anyhow. How many swimming events have you watched outside the Olympics? It's not like Tiger or Jordan who are/were always playing on TV. Phelps fame was just a short period.

His international fame won't be tarnished much, and I think that's where the long dollars are. Just like US celebrities being the spokesperson or advertising in Far East. He's not going to be hurting from this.
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Anyone as old as me remembers the WWF way back when Vince McMahon first got involved with them.
The man was a skinny as a tree limb.
I stopped following the WWF and then one day, WHAM!!! Vince McMahon is a monster dressed in a tuxedo.

Steroids? No way.:-)

For comparison, look at Barry Bonds when he first got in the league as compared to now.
Same with Vince McMahon.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090206/...phelps_kellogg


Ha I'm glad Kellogg is dropping his ass.
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Nowadays he could be president if he inhaled cocaine, well, that is, if he was a ********.
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But he's getting the Doritos and Papa John's Pizza accounts instead.:-):-)
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It all doesn't really matter, as his endorsements with Kelloggs couldn't go for ever, an Olympic champion in a sport no one cares about only goes so long. Phelps will have a career in something other than swimming eventually and all the bong hits won't mean much. He has the world in his hand to pursue a career of his choice.

Remember Eric Heiden?
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He's 23....Leave him alone...and legalize it already!
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