Phelps Penalty Misses Point

Swimmer, clueless on dry land, should be forced back into pool as community service

By Wesley Oliver, Newser Staff

Posted Feb 6, 2009 3:32 PM CST

(Newser) – US swimming authorities flopped in their decision to suspend Michael Phelps from competition, George Vecsey writes in the New York Times. Now Phelps “has more time to wander into parties and hold interesting-looking objects up to his face and say, ‘Hey, dude, what’... Read full story »

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