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Michael Phelps is cheating

What prevents a swimmmer from having an extendable reach via having extendable fingernails to deploy when necessary or at the end of the race? Do they check their hands?
 
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malbui said:
Going on what my grandfathers told me about their time in uniform, I find it hard to believe that any British and American units were even on speaking terms, let alone organising sporting encounters between themselves.
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From personal experience, hostility between persons under duress is inversely proportional to how much beer the other guy has, and is further reduced by how cold he can manage to get it, if it's American beer.

The Americans aviators in the pacific theater would load the ammo wells in the wings of their fighters with beer, then do a high-altitude test flight.

The beer would come down with frost on the bottle caps.

:D Everyone loved American aviators in the Pacific Theater. It seemed that they had to high-altitude test their planes a LOT! :D

shemp said:
It would be much more interesting if he had to swim in urine or vomit, or maybe the blood of the damned.
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Eewwww! What a disgusting thought!!

Blood of the INNOCENT, Shemp! Blood of the INNOCENT!!
 
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Darat said:
I do agree that Phelps has been cheating - apparently he trains most days and tries to swim faster than anyone else. If that isn't cheating I don't know what is!
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To be serious for a moment, Marion Jones' Olympic wins were all said to be due to her natural abilities and hard work, and we all know how that one turned out.

When I see someone performing as well as Phelps has, I can't but help think of the possibility of performancing enhancing drugs being involved. I certainly hope that is not the case and he's just that good.
 
Corsair 115 said:
To be serious for a moment, Marion Jones' Olympic wins were all said to be due to her natural abilities and hard work, and we all know how that one turned out.

When I see someone performing as well as Phelps has, I can't but help think of the possibility of performancing enhancing drugs being involved. I certainly hope that is not the case and he's just that good.
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Don't be ridiculous. Steroids don't work when mixed with water.
 
Corsair 115 said:
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When I see someone performing as well as Phelps has, I can't but help think of the possibility of performancing enhancing drugs being involved. I certainly hope that is not the case and he's just that good.
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As you say there are grounds for being suspicious given past events but I don't think anyone (in the case of Phelps) has even hinted at anything that indicates that he might be not "100% natural".
 
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erlando said:
The comments on that page are comedy gold. It might also be me suffering from overcaffeination. Pick one.. ;)
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Yes, the Michael Phelps facts really got going a couple days ago (probably about when he was halfway through his medals).

There was a Fark thread with some good ones (e.g., The Indonesian tsunami wasn't caused by an earthquake - Michael Phelps flip turned too hard off South America during his daily swim across the Pacific) but I cannot find the link.
 
aerosolben said:
There was a Fark thread with some good ones (e.g., The Indonesian tsunami wasn't caused by an earthquake - Michael Phelps flip turned too hard off South America during his daily swim across the Pacific) but I cannot find the link.
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...I really hope that wasn't what they said. They wouldn't even have the right ocean. They probably wouldn't even have the right hemisphere, given how much of South America is in the southern hemisphere...
 
Mobyseven said:
...I really hope that wasn't what they said. They wouldn't even have the right ocean. They probably wouldn't even have the right hemisphere, given how much of South America is in the southern hemisphere...
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I don't think you quite understand how powerfully he turned...
 
Mobyseven said:
...I really hope that wasn't what they said. They wouldn't even have the right ocean. They probably wouldn't even have the right hemisphere, given how much of South America is in the southern hemisphere...
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Fluid dynamics are not independent physical laws, but manifestations of Michael Phelps' will.
 
quixotecoyote said:
I don't think you quite understand how powerfully he turned...
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Regardless of how powerfully he turned, nobody in Australia, eastern Southeast Asia or Africa seemed to notice that their entire continent had just been hit by the largest tsunami in recorded history...

aerosolben said:
Fluid dynamics are not independent physical laws, but manifestations of Michael Phelps' will.
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...touche.
 
Gagglegnash said:
Hi

I remember reading a story from World War II, or as the Brits called, it, "The Recent Difficulty," where a British unit challenged an American unit to a friendly game of cricket.

The Americans won.

Later, one of the Brits accused them, over some good British beer, the stake in the game, of poor sportsmanship:

"...but they practiced!"

But everyone was drinking the beer, so all was forgiven.

:D Gotta love them Brits. :D
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That sounds about right for the England Cricket team.

We invented it, (OK I know that the Americans played it untli their little local difficulty with the Civil War) And we havn't told anyone else that the winner is the team that scores the fewest runs... It is a special English secret.

(As half kiwi/half English I have to claim this for anything resembling national "pride" in cricket) I only watch because of masochism.
 
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