60 Minutes - Michael Phelps

[Lap Counter]

Hard to believe I'm the first person to comment on tonight's 60 Minutes feature on Michael Phelps. Yes, he's getting ready for his 4th Olympics and looking good. Even better, we got to see LOTS of the Speedo racing briefs he likes to train in.

Without further comment, click here to roll the tape:
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7407688n

[singletlover]

Thank you Lap Counter,

What a wonderful way to start the week. Checking out the board, cup of coffee, and the 60 min. piece.

Good Speedo shots to be sure, but the best is that he seems to have gotten it together. Hard to remember how young he is.

[Byron]

Nice tape and would be quite a comeback in 2012.

Is 60MINS a weekly CBS program ?
(have somewhere seen a detailed analysis of his physical
advantages: height, arm-reach, size of feet, etc.)

[Crail]

60 minutes is a weekly Sunday news program on CBS - not news in the usual sense but close to 3 segments of somewhat investigative news.

[Swimmboy]

I don't think it would really be a 'comeback' for him - he did cut WAY back on his training for a year after the 08 Games, but has been training hard the past 2 years, and posting some VERY swift times on the scoreboard the past 3 or 4 months at various meets here in the U.S. Next month the U.S. Olympic Swim Trials begin, so we will see how he does there. By the way, he has a new ad on U.S. television for Head and Shoulders shampoo - I just saw it for the first time about two weeks ago. Can you believe it was actually filmed last August at the pool where I swim? But I didn't see him, the pool was closed during filming!

[Byron]

Thanks Crail (four years since Beijing and he seems to look more handsome)

The anatomical discussion is here (I will leave the Greek classification to Torchwatch):

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=what-makes-michael-phelps-so-good

[Byron]

New ad. from Pimm's:

Here we are robbed - not "lots of racing briefs" but just one second of a speedo guy at the beginning and a repeat split second of him in the crowd:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPV7Eg4Jv5w

PS re. Head & Shoulders: Mine was closed way back for Rowan Atkinson
(you have had Mr Bean episodes I believe ?)

[Crail]

Yes, another bad one from me - should there have been a (P)imm-peachment of their TV ad.:)

[Byron]

:eek: Oh no ! - that's worse than the taste of the stuff!
(depends which cup of course)

Do you watch HBO's Boardwalk Empire ? - a good bit of free
publicity in October 2010 which raised sales in the US apparently.

[MicroRon]

Go to Michael Phelps page in archives then: Scroll down... Michael Phelps at his swimmer's best...

http://speedomusings.blogspot.co.uk/2012_04_01_archive.html

:D

[Byron]

http://speedomusings.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/michael-phelps.html



:) LOL - just which uni's medicine faculty
produced that manual for the swim team ?

[SwimTeamSpeedo]

There is no question that Phelps is the an incredible swimming story, and this video also showed he is in many ways just a normal guy. He has inspired so many swimmers. Oh sure, he did some crazy and stupid things, but who hasn't as a twenty something. I love watching him, I love watching him swim, I love the way he looks in a Speedo. I am actually envious of his photo shoot for SI... to get to pose as one of the world's best in as Anderson called it "a tiny swimsuit." It must have been tough as a str8 guy to lay there with a really cute girl hanging off him in that tiny brief. Damn... to be Michael Phelps. No matter what anyone says, the guy is and always will be a legend. He is absolutely an amazing athlete!

[Byron]

:) He must have just read your post:http://www.speedojunkie.blogspot.co.uk/2011/06/whats-so-funny.html

[louis]

Ah yes I know that team, The front swimmer is Mic.. Spermatozoid the back swimmers are members of the Ball s County s spermatozoid swimming team. (OR IF YOU PREFER THE NUTS COUNTY CUM TEAM)

[Byron]

:) Another interesting swimmer (with unusual name ) shows up today in celebarchive. He is an English world record-holding backstroker:

http://www.thecelebarchive.net/ca/dailymale.asp

[Byron]

On the left (shame....without his patriotic Speedo on !)

http://yellowasian.tumblr.com/post/19312132857/liam-tancock

[speedoguy]

On the left (shame....without his patriotic Speedo on !)

http://yellowasian.tumblr.com/post/19312132857/liam-tancock

Who are the other two guys in this photo? Specially the one in the middle...

[SwimTeamSpeedo]

Love the look of the strings handing out on the guy in the center... they are all great looking swimmers! Strings out says "I'm done with the workout, let's relax."

[louis]

You have to scrool down to see outher pics, the second one Ian TANCOCK with a name like that I bet he wears a tan trough lol.

[Byron]

:eek: .......... either that or be very very careful !

Cannot name the other two - will work on it guys