Phelps Facebook...

After Phelps mentioned his Facebook profile in an interview with Costas how many people do you think went to check it out? Well, one for sure... me....I pulled this from Michael Phelps Facebook Blog....

This was written in "The Public Pulse" (opinion) section of the Sunday world-herald by a Nebraska man...

Going for the gold
Why does U.S. Olympic swimmer
Michael Phelps need all those gold
medals? Surely, two or three would be
enough to gain him a slew of product
endorsements, thus ensuring him a
lifetime of financial security.
Is Phelps just another greedy, self-
centered American, so focused on
personal excellence that he has lost
the capacity to feel compassion for
his fellow athletes from less wealthy
countries? After all, didn't they also
train hard?
But Phelps just won't quit. He
keeps competing as hard as he can,
thus depriving others of their fair
share of medals. Where is the justice
here?
Perhaps Congress should hold
hearings and pass a law compelling
Phelps to either stop crowding out the
competition or give up some of his
medals to less fortunate athletes,
whose sense of self-esteem surely
must be suffering in the wake of
Phelps' successes.

I responded....
I assure you the competitors that missed out on their Gold medals due to the fact they were just unfortunate enough to have a career simultaneously with Michael Phelps would want it no other way than to have their opportunity to race against him. They feel better about themselves having finished 2nd to him with their best effort than they would winning an event he decided not to participate in. It would be an insult to other athletes for Michael to not race just so they could get their shot. The man that made this ridiculous comment clearly has never been a competitor in his life. It's so absurd I'm mad at myself for even responding to it.