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Thread: Phelps is involved in gold medal conspiracy!
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[quote=KATRINA,315198]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. [/quote]
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