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Olympic gold medal winner Michael Phelps caught with cannabis pipe

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Olympic gold medal winner Michael Phelps caught with cannabis pipe
02-01-2009
By Georgina Dickinson
http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/new...el-Phelps-caught-with-bong-cannabis-pipe.html
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In our exclusive photo Michael Phelps, who won a record EIGHT gold medals for swimming at the Beijing games last summer, draws from a bong.

The glass pipes are generally used to smoke cannabis.

And after sporting chiefs announced laws which mean four-year bans for drug-taking, Phelps’ dreams of adding to his overall 14 gold medal tally at the 2012 games in London could already be OVER.

Those dreams seemed the last thing on his mind when he puffed from the bong during two days of partying with students last November, a quiet time in the swimming calendar when athletes would not expect to get tested for drugs.

One party-goer who witnessed the star’s behaviour told the News of the World: “He was out of control from the moment he got there.

“If he continues to party like that I’d be amazed if he ever won any more medals again.”

Phelps’ aides went into a panic over our story and offered us a raft of extraordinary incentives not to run the bong picture.

It was on November 6, weeks after his Beijing triumph, that 23-year-old Phelps surprised students at the University Of South Carolina in Columbia by showing up unannounced at a house party.

He was visiting Jordan Matthews, a girl he was secretly seeing who was a student there.

Our source revealed: “Michael came to visit Jordan but ended up just getting wasted every night.

“He arrived with a group of girls hanging all over him. Jaws hit the floor when he walked in. You don’t get many celebrities in Columbia, so when Phelps comes to your party it’s a very big deal.

Obnoxious

“He didn’t know many people so you’d think he’d be a little shy. But he was loud, obnoxious and slamming beers from the get-go.

“Every girl wanted a piece of him and every guy wanted to be his best buddy. He couldn’t get enough of all the attention.”

As he basked in his hero status, Phelps knocked back beers and shots of spirits. And when a student offered him the glass bong engraved with red writing, he did not hesitate, says our source.

The 6ft 4ins athlete, in a white T-shirt and navy cap worn back to front, clasped the device in his huge hands and inhaled deeply.

Our source said: “You could tell Michael had smoked before. He grabbed the bong and a lighter and knew exactly what to do.

“He looked just as natural with a bong in his hands as he does swimming in the pool. He was the gold medal winner of bong hits. Michael ended up getting a little paranoid, though, because before too long he looked like he was nervous and ran out of the place.”

But the next night, Phelps was out partying again. The source added: “He was right back at it at Pavlov’s bar.

“Like the night before he was holding court, throwing back shots two at a time and pouring drinks to every cute girl.”

Drink has got Phelps into trouble before. In 2004, aged 19, he got 18 months probation for driving while under the influence.

His wild behaviour is in stark contrast to the grim regime which took him to the top of his sport.

He once described his life, saying: “All you do is eat, sleep, swim; eat, sleep, swim; eat, sleep, swim.”

Last night Phelps’ management team and the sporting world closed ranks over the scandal.

Taint

The US Olympics Committee, who have pledged to clamp down on drug use, refused to comment, as did USA Swimming and Phelps’ coach Bob Bowman.

More surprising still was the World Anti-Doping Agency’s refusal to comment, given that they introduced the four-year ban on sport’s drug users.

Phelps, who earned £4million last year in endorsements, has resumed training for the 2012 games.

But there were fears about his commitment when, weeks after the bong incident, he began dating former stripper Caroline Pal.

Phelps is represented by marketing giant Octagon, which works with huge brands such as Mastercard and HSBC. They admitted proven cannabis use would be “a major taint” on Phelps’ character.

Spokesman Clifford Bloxham offered us an extraordinary deal not to publish our story, saying Phelps would become our columnist for three years, host events and get his sponsors to advertise with us.

In return, he asked that we kill Phelps’ bong picture. Bloxham said: “It’s seeing if something potentially very negative for Michael could turn into something very positive for the News of the World.”

He stressed that the swimmer had taken 1,500 drug tests and never failed one.

Until now?
 
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Is this article a joke? Fucking really? Who gives a fuck if the guy just won a shit load of medals and decided to toke up! Let the man do it!

"He looked just as natural with a bong in his hands as he does swimming in the pool. He was the gold medal winner of bong hits"

Haha fuck yeh, you hit that god damn bong! Good for hi
 
proof that weed should be legalized. if you can win 8 gold medals in 2 weeks and blaze it down, it obviously doesn't have too much effect on the body.
 
He should have known in this day in age... that someone woulda snapped a shot or even video with a cell phone.... cmon now... its almost like he wanted to get caught...
 
He should have known in this day in age... that someone woulda snapped a shot or even video with a cell phone.... cmon now... its almost like he wanted to get caught...

He was wasted, people do shit much more stupid than that when they are wasted.
 
"I think people need to be educated to the fact that marijuana is not a drug. Marijuana is an herb and a flower. God put it here. If He put it here and He wants it to grow, what gives the government the right to say that God is wrong?"
- Willie Nelson
 
Guess there is no problem if he was downing shots. :|

He is one of the greatest athletes of our time, a 14 time Olympic gold medalist, I think he knows what is and what is not good to put into his own body. :X

The only positive is we can add Phelps to the list of famous/influential cannabis consumers.

Michael Phelps
Richard Feynman
Carl Sagan
Friedrich Nietzsche
Pablo Picasso
Tomas Jefferson
George Washington (?)
William Shakespeare
 
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i now love phelps :)
hahahahahah

but they cant exactly prove it was anything but tobacco so i doubt this will go too far
 
wtf medal winners human too they need/deserve fun too. obviously he's just chillin after a hard working day or something
 
Sounds like he knows how to have a good time. Considering how fucking hard he worked to train for all those medals, its no surprise that he's going to party hard in his time off. And he's in such damn good shape that the odd week of madness isn't going to harm his overall performance.
 
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He won't get banned.Weed and alcohol are damn sure not performance enhancing substances.Imagine if he went in the pool drunk and stoned?I do believe he would come last in race.Also at the moment he isn't competing.If he was busted using stimulants then things would be very different.:\
 
man, the media sucks!


you can barely tell if thats phelps in the pic, anyway
 
darn! i was going to make a thread



whats the big deal?! all that hard work, he deserves a bong hit...

plus what is he doin partyin with college students...wtf PARtY WITH UR OWN KIND aka celebreties
 
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