Phelps No Longer Golden

Michael Phelps won eight gold medals at the Beijing Olympics, but he no longer has any of them.  Phelps had to melt his medals and sell the gold to help pay for the U.S. Men’s Swim Team’s return flight which cost $80,000 dollars per person due to rising fuel prices.  Phelps stated that he was sad to lose the medals, but glad to get out of China.

“Sure, it sucks not to have those gold medals anymore, they were a great way to pick up some unsuspecting Chinese girl who didn’t know any better,” Phelps said in between laps at the pool, “but I can’t take this fucking place any longer.  Beijing has terrible air quality, I can barely breathe when I walk outside.  Also, I can’t access all the websites I want to even though China said they’d ease restrictions for the Olympic Games.  It’d be nice if NBC would spend less time covering my every moment and reporting on what a terrible country China is, but I guess you can’t expect the media to act like watchdogs.  They did let that whole Iraq thing happen, you know.”

Phelps did say that he had good memories of the Beijing Olympics beyond winning eight gold medals.  His favorite moment was meeting the members of the 2012 Chinese Olympic team.  He provided the following picture of the team.