Tag: Michael Phelps
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USA Swimming Announces Discipline for Michael Phelps: 6-month suspension; Withdrawal from 2015 FINA World Championships
USA Swimming announced today that, due to a violation of the organization’s Code of Conduct, Michael Phelps (Baltimore, Md.) will be suspended from USA Swimming-sanctioned competition for six months, withdraw from the 2015 FINA World Championships Team and forfeit his funding from the NGB for six months. Phelps’ discipline is set forth under Section 304.3.19…
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Michael Phelps taking time away from swimming after DUI arrest, to ‘attend a program’
Olympic champion swimmer Michael Phelps is taking “some time away” from swimming and is entering a six-week, in-patient program less than a week after being arrested for driving under the influence in Baltimore. “The past few days have been extremely difficult,” Phelps said in a statement. “I recognize that this is not my first lapse…
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Chad Le Clos reveals how he upstaged an Olympic legend
When Michael Phelps stepped onto the starting block in Lane 6 for the 200m butterfly final at London 2012 he had in his sights a 15th Olympic title and a third consecutive gold in the event. Standing next to him in Lane 5 was a 20-year-old South African by the name of Chad Le Clos,…
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Witness: Michael Phelps was gambling, drinking before arrest
New details in the DUI arrest of swimming superstar Michael Phelps, reports WJZ. Michael Phelps had been out gambling just prior to his arrest. Police say when his luck ran out, his blood alcohol level was almost twice the legal limit. Police say Olympian Michael Phelps smelled of alcohol when he was stopped in his…
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Michael Phelps Arrested For DUI In Baltimore City
The Baltimore bullet has been arrested for driving under the influence in Baltimore City early Tuesday morning. Michael Phelps was arrested around 1:40 a.m. in the Fort McHenry Tunnel on I-95 by Maryland Transit Authority police. MDTA released the following statement: “A Maryland Transportation Authority (MDTA) Police Officer was operating stationary radar on southbound I-395…
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Japanese Swimming Has Momentum at Its Back
In 2012, Michael Phelps saw the writing on London’s Aquatic Centre scoreboard. In the third of four preliminary heats of the Olympic 400-meter individual medley, the Japanese teenager Kosuke Hagino clocked at 4 minutes 10.01 seconds. Phelps, the world-record holder in the event since 2002, remembered cringing, because he was in the final heat and…
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Chad le Clos reflects on beating Michael Phelps
A total of 23 athletes at the first Youth Olympics in Singapore in 2010 went on win Olympic medals in 2012. Perhaps the most memorable was South African swimmer Chad le Clos, who beat Michael Phelps in the 200m butterfly. Le Clos, now 22, was far more successful at the Youth Olympics, where he won…
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Michael Phelps on winless run: ‘I’m swimming for myself’
The most decorated Olympian of all time reflects on his winless run since coming out of retirement in April. Michael Phelps says his lacklustre performance at the US national championships served as a good learning experience. ‘I am doing it for myself, and I am going to have to work because I want to,’ he…