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Title: Phelps
Post by: Mustaine on August 10, 2008, 11:04:59 PM
anyone watching Olympics?

Man that relay was kick-ass. Those bragging frenchies were put in their place! Broke the world record by 4 seconds!

The guy sure can swim, he did his part in the relay 1 hour 3 minutes after his last preliminary. I am actually interested if he can get the 8 medals, and I am rooting for him!
Title: Re: Phelps
Post by: Hoarach on August 11, 2008, 12:36:04 AM
And yet they keep testing him for performance enhancing drugs after every single one of his races....

Do they want him to win at all?  :rolleyes:
Title: Re: Phelps
Post by: mg1942 on August 11, 2008, 01:43:36 AM
French got whooped!

That's what they get for talking stuff!

Title: Re: Phelps
Post by: icemaw on August 11, 2008, 01:48:40 AM
That was the most incredible race of any kind I have ever seen!
Title: Re: Phelps
Post by: Serenity on August 11, 2008, 03:00:03 AM
And yet they keep testing him for performance enhancing drugs after every single one of his races....

Do they want him to win at all?  :rolleyes:

He volunteered for that. Its a program a bunch of US athletes volunteered for. They undergo CONSTANT drug testing, blood tests, urine tests, litterally everything we can think to throw at them. Theyre trying to advocate "clean" play.
Title: Re: Phelps
Post by: BiPoLaR on August 11, 2008, 09:45:43 AM
And yet they keep testing him for performance enhancing drugs after every single one of his races....

Do they want him to win at all?  :rolleyes:
Nope...dont look that way
Title: Re: Phelps
Post by: Mustaine on August 12, 2008, 10:49:17 PM
So I have officially watched him live win 8, 9, 10, and now 11 ! :aok


The guy is sick. He's almost like The Incredible Mr. Limpet :lol




Title: Re: Phelps
Post by: Holden McGroin on August 12, 2008, 11:09:44 PM
And yet they keep testing him for performance enhancing drugs after every single one of his races....

He has voluntarily been giving twice a week samples to the USADA for te past year.  He's clean.

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The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency announced the program Wednesday and said it included 12 Olympic athletes, including Michael Phelps and Tyson Gay. They are the same 12 who signed up earlier this year for USADA's new pilot drug-testing program that uses multiple blood and urine tests to establish a baseline for athletes, then compares subsequent results against the baseline.

(http://www.cbc.ca/gfx/images/sports/photos/2008/07/04/phelps-michael080704.jpg)

(http://www.photomediagroup.com/archive/2005-summer/img/rc-markSpitz.jpg)

Much of the reason for times getting faster is technique.  In the BF, Mark Spitz spent a lot more energy going up than does Phelps, and Spitz was as dominant then as Phelps is now.  The only reason Spitz didn'y win eight is he only entered seven.

Video, swimming channels (swimming treadmills)  and other technology helps in finding the most efficient motion for the stroke.
Title: Re: Phelps
Post by: DPQ5 on August 12, 2008, 11:28:32 PM
yeah i just watched em 1 min ago win ANOTHER GOLD medal.

I say we are the best team in the pool with phelps.
Title: Re: Phelps
Post by: moot on August 13, 2008, 08:59:21 AM
He has voluntarily been giving twice a week samples to the USADA for te past year.  He's clean.
Aren't there ways to splice genes now, that leave no chemical trail in the circulatory systems?
Title: Re: Phelps
Post by: Speed55 on August 13, 2008, 09:21:36 AM
Everytime he hits the water, it's like watching a mako  in a race against whale sharks.

 
Title: Re: Phelps
Post by: Serenity on August 13, 2008, 08:02:08 PM
Everytime he hits the water, it's like watching a mako  in a race against whale sharks.

 

I was watching the team race last night (Not sure which one) but they had Phelps lead off... He was so far ahead of everyone else they had to zoom out to see everyone! By the time the next two men had swum, the announcer was saying his grandmother could anchor and they would still win... And he was probably right! It blew my mind seeing that...
Title: Re: Phelps
Post by: Ripsnort on August 13, 2008, 09:35:12 PM
Any Canadian medals won yet?  :lol
Title: Re: Phelps
Post by: DYNAMITE on August 13, 2008, 10:03:19 PM
Any Canadian medals won yet?  :lol

No... but Kazakhstan has won 2
(http://www.borat-bruno.com/img/FRANCE_BORAT_157108c.jpg)

ITS NICE!!!
Title: Re: Phelps
Post by: Holden McGroin on August 13, 2008, 10:59:35 PM
Any Canadian medals won yet?  :lol

They haven't raced the mens eight finals... they are favo(u)red as they are the defending world champions.  Canuckians are bad bellybutton in crew.

(http://www.cbc.ca/gfx/images/sports/photos/2008/05/15/men'seightprofile-price(2).gif)
(http://www.rowingcanada.org/sites/rowingcanada/images/munich/men_gold_web.jpg)

Title: Re: Phelps
Post by: Reschke on August 13, 2008, 11:05:24 PM
If you could pit Spitz versus Phelps in their prime who would win?

I think Phelps would smoke him without a doubt.
Title: Re: Phelps
Post by: trax1 on August 13, 2008, 11:55:30 PM
Aren't there ways to splice genes now, that leave no chemical trail in the circulatory systems?
Oh yeah, in-fact they were thinking about giving him gills to breath under water, but they thought that might be too obvious.

If you could pit Spitz versus Phelps in their prime who would win?

I think Phelps would smoke him without a doubt.
Phelps would definitely win.