When he first stepped up, few had heard of him.
But he came determined to change that.
And did.
For he not only excelled all that had competed before him, he has yet to be beaten by any of the all that came after him.
After he was gone, in his wake he left everyone amazed. For by his prowess and discipline alone, he demolished and laid to waste no less than thirty-seven World Records.
He was aged 23 when he reached supremacy and proved he was Matchless, records showing that for the first time ever, Gold was bestowed Eight times on a single man.
At the ripe age of 27, having beaten everything that could be thrown against him, he decided to retire and leave the Field to whoever might be Better .
By then, he had amassed 21 Olympic medals.
No one has yet broken this man’s record.
That is his Legacy.
One which, I think, Achilles himself would bow to.
His name is Michael Phelps.
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Then,
1 - Phelps, now 29, pleaded guilty to drunken driving and was sentenced to a year in prison, sentence is suspended, with probation for a year and a half.
2 – This happened because Phelps registered a 0.14 percent on a blood-alcohol test, the legal limit being 0.08 percent in Maryland, USA.
3- It was not Phelps' first brush with the law, or with drinking and driving. His first DUI arrest came in 2004 on the Eastern Shore of Maryland when he was 19. He was then also sentenced to probation.
4 - Another embarrassment for Phelps came in 2009, when a British tabloid newspaper published a photo of him using a marijuana pipe at a party in South Carolina.
5 – Lastly, Phelps “fraternized” with Taylor Lianne Chandler – or so she/he claims – who happens to be an alleged Intersex (?) person.
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So, lemme get this straighta) While driving, a teenage kid gets stopped by police after a party, with alcohol in his blood.
b) Aged 24, after being hailed a Hero by his fellow countrymen and a Freak by all other fellows, he’s caught smoking a marijuana pipe.
c) In the interim, he may – or may not – have indulged in a bit of a Reed’s “walk on the wild side” with a big breasted shemale.
d) And, finally, at the extremely responsible age of 29, he drives with Zero comma Fourteen grams of alcohol in his blood, gets caught once again (too many !) and sent forthwith to a Alcoholics Anonymous repentance program.
This guy, in his now old under 30 Years of Age, has a public rap sheet with two offenses plus an indecent sex behavior conduit to sweeten it up.
The USofAmerica hypocritical Puritanism never ceases to amaze some of us from the USofEurope pragmatic Libertinism.
For the record,
In my Youth days, I drank and drove and was stopped with not Zero comma something but with 1,15 grams. I got entangled twice in fistfights where property was shattered and jaws broken amidst open brows and crushed noses, among other muscle flexing episodes with less exuberant consequences. I prowled, chased and “fraternized” with some of my neighbors daughters and a few of someone else’s stranger ones (I wasn’t into checking ID’s, just their boobs and bottoms to see if worth following up with all the rest of the stuff for I was a quality demanding guy), and did it with unrepentant passion with these sexed persons (Inter or whatever, I don’t remember and I don’t care) unembarrassed enthusiasm and consenting collaboration, all the while and all of that under the extremely excruciating conditions, and painstaking discipline of, following through with the hardships derived from the constant glare of the anonymous attention granted by a college boy’s classroom challenges.
Besides a “No mon, no fun, your son” followed by a “Too bad, so sad, your dad” and a couple slaps from a bored cop facing a testosterone-high kid, my rap sheet is as clean as a brand new roll of toilet paper.
Which helped me a lot, latter on, with keeping it clean.
Not to mention, with letting me grow up. So as to face the music and its Consequences, not just some blind Law or, even less (thank Him), a stupid Press.
Thing is,
Move on, Phelps.
You’re an okay guy, for a Hero.
Even if a kid needing a good slap on his face.