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[quote=KATRINA,315200]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.[/quote]
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