| Phelps is involved in gold medal conspiracy! | |
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| Aug 19, 2008 21:06 |   |
 | Having won 8 gold medals at Beijng Olympics, Phelps has made a stunning history. Meanwhile, he has broken Mark Spitz' 36-year-old record. He is American's hero. But he is involved in the gold medal conspiracy. During the 100 meters butterfly race, Phelps won the champion by 0.01 of a second. However, "televised replays from all the different angles, including the one from underwater cameras, clearly showed that Cavic was the fist one to touch the wall." If it was true, Phelps just tied Spitz's record. Really sad to hear this news.  |
| Aug 19, 2008 21:08 | #1 |
| Another photo. |
| Aug 19, 2008 21:14 | #2 |
| Yeah, eight gold medals are a conspiracy it self, all right! |
| Aug 19, 2008 21:29 | #3 |
| The wall of the swimming pool has a touch sensor. Once you they touch it, it will record their time. Hundredth of a second is faster than the blink of an eye. It's probably a hair width difference. |
| Aug 19, 2008 22:50 | #4 |
| GUEST35209 | Idiots. What conspiracy? |
| Aug 19, 2008 23:07 | #5 |
| I would rather trust the electronic equipment than the eye - which is what we rely on in diving and gymnastics and even refereed sports like football. We must accept the result. |
| Aug 19, 2008 23:12 | #6 |
| GUEST7506 | The news said that Phelps won by a finger nail. What a pity! If Cavic had his finger nail as long as girls, he would be the winner. Just look at the picture, clearly it shows Cavic was the first one to touch the wall. However, the underwater sensor and the official timekeeper Omega decided that Phelps won. One thing you may not know is that "the official timekeeper of the event is the same company that sponsors Phelps since 2004". Very ineresting! Is it a coincidence? Some guys said that FINA wanted Phelps to win the gold medal too so they let Phelps win. Phelps reminds me of another swimmer Anthony Nesty, who won the gold medal of 100 meters butterfly in Seoul Olympics. That match was also interesting. The Amercian swimmer Matt Biondi led in ther first 50 meters mark. However, he didn't realize that another guy was catching behind him. Finally, they almost touched the wall simultaneously. Biondi believed that he was the winner so that he raised his hand to celebrate his victory. However, the scoreboard showed that the winner was Anthony Nesty. He won the title by 0.01 second. Twenty years later, history repeated again. However, the American won this time. |
| Aug 20, 2008 01:20 | #7 |
| Idiots. What conspiracy? GUEST35209, four-letter words are not welcomed here. By the way, I am not an idiot. Actually, it was NBC who made its doubt first. Maybe, you should ask them if they are idiots. I just found the news and posted it here. |
| Aug 20, 2008 21:50 | #8 |
| The news said that Phelps won by a finger nail. What a pity! If Cavic had his finger nail as long as girls, he would be the winner. GUEST7506, really a good idea. Cavic should learn a good lesson. Sometimes, the length of your finger nail can decide if you are the champion. |
| Aug 23, 2008 02:34 | #9 |
| Very interesting! To end the controversy, the best way is to release the underwater video images of that match. Earlier, Omega said that they would release the video images. However, they changed their mind later and said that IOC decided to release the video images or not. Finally, IOC said that it is no need to release it so Omega didn't release the underwater video images. Why? If there was no conspiracy, why not release the video images? This made the situation more complicated. The report from the New York Times. BEIJING — Soon after Michael Phelps claimed his seventh gold medal in a disputed finish in the 100 butterfly, Joe Ward, a graphics editor for The Times who sits next to me here in our office at the Main Press Center, hustled over to the Omega Pavilion down the block from the Water Cube. Omega, the Swiss watchmaker, is the official timekeeper for the Beijing Games. Joe wanted to find out if Omega had any underwater images from the Phelps-Cavic race that captured the wall touches more vividly than the photos we had seen. Apparently Omega has underwater video that slows the action even more than the one-hundredth of a second that Phelps won by. A spokeswoman told Joe that Omega would soon send the images to the news media. But when Joe returned to our office, he received an e-mail message from the spokeswoman. “Sorry but FINA decided not to release any timekeeping images to the media,” she wrote. Christopher Clarey of The International Herald Tribune tracked down Cornel Marculescu, FINA’s executive director, at the Water Cube to ask him about the decision to not release the images. Marculescu said it was a matter of policy, and that the Serbian team was satisfied with the ruling after seeing the images — so there is no need to share the images. Christopher pressed, asking why FINA wouldn’t distribute the footage if it showed the margin conclusively. Marculescu said: “We are not going to distribute footage. We are not doing these kinds of things. Everything is good. What are you going to do with the footage? See what the Serbians already saw? It is clarified for us beyond any doubt. "He’s the winner in any way. He’s the winner no doubt. Even if you could see the pictures, I don’ t know how you could use them.” UPDATE: Given that there is no definitive photograph showing clearly who won this race, we updated this post to feature an image taken just after both Phelps and Cavic touched the wall.  |
| Aug 23, 2008 02:38 | #10 |
| Here is another one, also from New York Times. By Withholding Photos, Olympic Timekeeper Draws Attention to Relationship With Phelps By JERÉ LONGMAN Published: August 20, 2008 BEIJING — After a week of arriving at the finish earlier than anyone else, Michael Phelps arrived fashionably late for a public appearance at the Omega Pavilion on Wednesday, grabbed a chocolate chip cookie on the sly and put his finger to his mouth, as if to hush any word that he was breaking training. Phelps was clearly in a relaxed mood, his quest for eight gold medals having been achieved, but some find his relationship with Omega as troubling as it is cozy. Omega is not only the official timekeeper of the Beijing Games. It is also one of Phelps’s corporate sponsors, an arrangement that appears to be a conflict of interest. The most visible athlete at these Games is getting a paycheck from the same company whose equipment decides the outcome of Phelps’s events. Most of the time, such a relationship probably would not draw much attention or concern. The Olympic timing system is a seemingly fail-safe, objective determination of the order of finish. In contrast with figure skating and gymnastics, there are no subjective votes made by judges in swimming. But Phelps was involved in a disputed race last Saturday. Omega has declined to release underwater video images showing conclusively that Phelps won the 100-meter butterfly by a hundredth of a second over Milorad Cavic of Serbia, saying that swimming’s world governing body, FINA, made the decision. Whether it has anything to hide or not, Omega is needlessly leaving its own reputation — and Phelps’s — vulnerable to suspicion, sports ethicists and historians said. |
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