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/ar...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]

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/...1_archive.html