THE MEDIA NEEDS TO STAY OUT AMERICANS LIFES!!!

Michael Phelps Bong Picture: Olympic Champion Caught Smoking Marijuana


Michael Phelps lost Kellogg's endorsement because of the (f.r.e.a.k.i.n.g) Media all up in his business. man leave the kid alone he made a mistake as we have all done as youths! No one is entitled to privacy anymore. and the media is getting more and more stupid everyday by invading American people life's and being to d**m nosy!! just like the lady with 8 kids, I dont agree with it, but it's HER business and her life. MEDIA (F-)

Michael Phelps was suspended from competition for three months by USA Swimming in the wake of the photo that showed the Olympic record-setting champion inhaling from a marijuana pipe.

The Associated Press reports:

The sport's national governing body also cut off its financial support to Phelps for the same three-month period, effective Thursday.


"This is not a situation where any anti-doping rule was violated, but we decided to send a strong message to Michael because he disappointed so many people, particularly the hundreds of thousands of USA Swimming member kids who look up to him as a role model and a hero," the Colorado Springs-based federation said in a statement.

***UPDATED February 5th, 5:20PM***
In an interview with a Baltimore TV station Thursday Phelps was asked about rumors that he would not compete in the 2012 Olympics in London. He avoided giving a clear answer, saying only that it would be "good to get back in the water."

FUK!! THE MEDIA!!!!!!!! LEAVE THE KID ALONE!!!!!!!!!!! INSANELY FUKIN AMERICAN MEDIA. Look at how they are trying to rip him apart like he's some sort of rampaging psychopathic madman--and i say even as i think drugs are stupid.

DADDY BOLT!!!! BIG UPS!!

MONTEGO BAY, St James - A beaming Wellesley Bolt touched down at the Sangster International Airport here at about 6:15 am yesterday, full of excitement at having made the trip to Beijing, China, where his son Usain shattered the 100m and 200m world records and helped the 4x100m relay team set a new world record at the just concluded games of the 29th Olympiad.

"I enjoyed it all...the whole thing...it was great, just great," he told the welcoming party comprising journalists, representatives of his corporate sponsors, Digicel Jamaica, and the Jamaica Tourist Board.
Wellesley Bolt (left) regales Joy Clarke, Digicel's regional sales manager, Western Jamaica, with tales from Beijing, China, yesterday on his arrival at the Sangster International Airport. (Photo: Pat Roxborough-Wright)Wellesley Bolt (left) regales Joy Clarke, Digicel's regional sales manager, Western Jamaica, with tales from Beijing, China, yesterday on his arrival at the Sangster International Airport. (Photo: Pat Roxborough-Wright)

Initially reluctant to make the long trip to eastern Asia - he feared the almost 20-hour journey would prove too much for him - Bolt senior left the island last Tuesday at Digicel's insistence to join up with his son hours ahead of his 22nd birthday.

Yesterday, he said he was very happy he went as the experience was beyond anything he had ever imagined.

"I became a celebrity...the people there mobbed me, wanting my autograph...and things like that. The police had to take me away," he said excitedly. "Then when I saw Usain after the 200m, he said, 'Daddy, how do you feel?' I said 'great' and we hugged...it was great," he said.

Looking smart in blue denims and Puma brand tee, cap and shoes, Wellesley Bolt said the first thing he was going to do when he got back to his home in Sherwood Content was rest.

However, in spite of his fatigue, he spent several minutes regaling journalists with anecdotes from the Beijing experience before Digicel's representatives saw him off in the red Mitsubishi Grandis motor van they rented for his convenience.

The conversation covered almost everything about his son, from his upbringing and diet, to his engaging personality, reflected in Usain's on-track dancing celebrations which ticked off the president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Jacques Rogge.

"It doesn't matter what anybody wants to say...it's the yam, banana, coco," Wellesley Bolt explained. "Usain loves yam, it's only when he got older that he began to like rice and peas.and he always had a quart of cow's milk every morning."

On arriving home, he found it impossible to sleep and within hours it was back to business, writing up bills for his grocery shop.
"I could have gone to sleep as nobody realised I was back since it was a strange vehicle. But I'm not used to sleeping in the day, so it's back to work for me," he told the Observer later in the day.

Bolt's mother, Jennifer, who is spending a few days in London, is expected back by the end of the week, while Bolt is expected back some time next month.

SNAPP!!!!!!!!! Cuban athlete kicks referee's head - Banned for life

A Cuban taekwondo athlete and his coach were banned for life after Angel Matos kicked the referee in the face following his bronze-medal match disqualification.

Cuban coach Leudis Gonzalez offered no apology for Matos' actions during the men's over-80 kg (176 pounds) match.

Matos was winning 3-2, with 1:02 in the second round, when he fell to the mat after being hit by his opponent, Kazakhstan's Arman Chilmanov. He was sitting there, awaiting medical attention, when he was disqualified for taking too much injury time. Fighters get one minute, and Matos was disqualified when his time ran out.

Matos angrily questioned the call, pushed a judge, then pushed and kicked referee Chakir Chelbat of Sweden. Matos then spat on the floor and was escorted out.

"He was too strict," Gonzalez said, referring to the decision to disqualify Matos. Afterward, he charged the match was fixed, accusing the Kazakhs of offering him money.

"This is a strong violation of the spirit of taekwondo and the Olympic Games. The sanctions are the following and are effective immediately: Lifetime ban of the coach and athlete in all championships sanctioned by the (World Taekwondo Federation) and at the same time, all records of this athlete at the Beijing Games will immediately be erased," said the announcer, reading a WTF release.

WE KNEW IT WAS COMEING!! OFF THE RUMOR MILL FROM MEDIATAKEOUT.

EXPLOSIVE RUMOR: MIAMI DOLPHINS COACH BILL PARCELLS SENDS TALENT SCOUT TO CHINA TO 'TALK' TO USAIN BOLT ABOUT POSSIBLY COMING TO THE NFL!!!



World record holding Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt may have good things in store for him when he gets back to this side of the world. MediaTakeOut.com just spoke to a person affiliated with the NFL's Miami Dolphins organization who claims that Bill Parcells is interested in trying out Bolt for the Miami Dolphins.

The insider told MediaTakeOut.com, "Coach Parcells kept saying that he wanted to try out Bolt and [all the players] thought he was just joking. But now [one of the scouts] is on a plane to China to talk with Usain's manager."

6 foor 4 and runs the 100 meter in 9.6 seconds. Can't say we blame Bill for trying...


T4R: IF THIS IS TRUE ALL WE CAN SAY IS DON'T DO IT SIR BOLT, WE KNEW IT WAS JUST A MATTER OF TIME BEFORE THE BIGGIES EYES START SEEING DOLLAR SIGNS!! AND IT WIL NOT BE IN YOUR BEST INTREST ONLY THEIRS!! BIG UPS MI YUTE!!!

NO STERIODS FOR BOLT!! THEY JUST KEEP ON HATEING ON JAMAICA!!! GET OVER IT!!

Twenty years after the biggest doping scandal in Olympic history, it was as inevitable as the sunrise that world records would be followed by questions about doping - and one of Jamaica's team doctors was ready.

Minutes after Usain Bolt smashed the 200 metres record with a stirring 19.30-second dash, Herb Elliott was heading off speculation that the world's fastest man was fuelled by performance enhancers.

"I test in Jamaica, and I have tested Usain 15 times since November of last year," said Elliott, an internist and former track athlete for the Caribbean island. "He's been tested another six times since he's been here, including blood tests.

"Anybody who wants to cast aspersions on our program for drugs, I say one thing [to them]: Go to hell."

Jamaican sprinters had said - only half-seriously - before the Olympic track meet that they'd been asked for so many blood tests that they were afraid they'd be too weakened to run their best.

But the suspicion has lingered over the world's top sprinters since Canadian Ben Johnson set a world record for the 100 metres while on the steroid stanozolol at the Seoul Games in 1988. Elliott was reminded that Johnson's coach, Charlie Francis, had made similar denials because his charge was passing tests.

"Charlie Francis was an idiot," Elliott countered. "He had [the late doctor] Jamie Astaphan and he was lying about it. I don't have to lie."

Elliott, who said he has known 6-foot-5 Bolt since he was "a gangling boy of 13," said he didn't resent being quizzed about whether the new world's fastest man is running a clean race. "I don't resent the questions," he said. "All people are entitled to ask."

He said Bolt had been fast from childhood "and he's still the [junior] 400-metre record holder from the boys school championships. He wanted to up his speed, so he dropped down to the 200 and 100.

"His coach, Glen Mills, has done a great job, and his parents have kept him down to terra firma."

Another Jamaican team physician, Warren Blake, said all eight finalists in the 100 metres were tested after Bolt smashed the world record with a time of 9.69 seconds.

"It validates all results," he said. "It has come to the time when the cheats are on the back foot."

JUST THE OTHER DAY IOC president Jacques Rogge criticized Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt Thursday for showing a lack of respect to other competitors after his record-breaking gold medal performances in the 100 and 200 meters.

“That’s not the way we perceive being a champion,” Rogge said.“I have no problem with him doing a show,” Rogge said in an interview with three international news agency reporters. “I think he should show more respect for his competitors and shake hands, give a tap on the shoulder to the other ones immediately after the finish and not make gestures like the one he made in the 100 meters.”

These Haters stay nitpicking for every little thing. Sir Bolt just turned 22 years-old and is tearing up the track. Who gives a crap if he didn’t shake hands. Let the man enjoy his victory. (SMH). source Bossip.com

T4R:

BIG UPS SIR BOLTS!!!! Do what you do best!!

JAMAICA IS DOING THEIR TING!! CONGRADS TO MELAINE WALKER

WTF!! NBC HAETING ON USAIN BOLT!!!

Usain Bolt picked a bad night to run the most electrifying 100 meter race in Olympic history. As Michael Phelps' eighth gold medal dominated television coverage, Internet sites and newspaper headlines in the United States on Saturday night, Bolt's scintillating 9.69 was buried as a second story. Normally the premiere race of every Games, the men's 100 final received scant domestic publicity despite it's historic, thrilling result.

Clearly, the 12-hour time difference played a huge role in the under-coverage of Bolt's feat. While Michael Phelps' races garnered live coverage on NBC (because it was competed in the morning in Beijing), Bolt's wasn't shown until nearly 13 hours after its completion. Even then, it felt like an afterthought to Phelps' eighth gold medal swim.

NBC is said to be worried about post-Phelps ratings for these Olympics, yet they squandered the opportunity to turn Bolt into their second-week star by dumping his race in the outer-reaches of primetime and then giving it no notice on yesterday's broadcast. Bolt's speed, charisma, youth and good looks make him a prime candidate to be the breakout star of these Games. The Peacock Network is more concerned with squeezing every last ounce of coverage out of Michael Phelps though. (Not that I blame them.)

Bolt will have the stage to himself on Wednesday when he runs the 200 and is expected to challenge Michael Johnson's 12-year old world record. Hopefully he'll get the coverage he deserves.

T4R EDITOR:
I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN PROUD OF MY PEOPLE , SEEING AS WE ARE SUCH A SMALL ISLAND WE ARE STRONG PROUD AND DETERMINED. MR BOLT THERE IS NOTHING WRONG IN THE WAY YOU CELEBRATED YOUR WINNING, I HAVE SEEN ANOTHER COUNTRY DID A LOT MORE GRAND STANDING RUN THROUGH THE CROWDS AND WAVE HIS FLAG, I GUESS THAT WAS OKAY. JEALOUSY SURE IS A DISEASE,CONGRATS ALL JAMAICAN ATHLETES WE LOVE YOU AND ARE SO PROUD TO CALL OURSELVES JAMAICAN GOOD LUCK AND GOD BLESS YOU ALL.

JAMAICA IS BLAZIN THE TRACK AND FIELD MASSIVE BIG UPS TO SHELLY-ANN FRASER

A few fun-loving fresh faces have suddenly turned Jamaica into the "World's Fastest Nation."

And that supposed U.S. track and field juggernaut? Well, things aren't quite going to plan.

Right fist thrust overhead as she crossed the finish line all alone, silver braces shining in the Bird's Nest lights as she hopped in celebration like the 21-year-old she is, little-known Shelly-Ann Fraser won the women's 100 meters Sunday night in 10.78 seconds to help make these Olympics a sweeping success for the Caribbean island.

Fraser was followed across the line, steps later, by teammates Sherone Simpson and Kerron Stewart, who both finished in 10.98 and both collected silvers — giving Jamaica the first sweep of medals in a women's 100 by any nation at any Olympics or world championships.


T4R-EDITOR
I would like to say that I am very proud of the Jamaican Team. You all went out there and did your best. Keep up the good work and continue to bring home the medals. We love you and are praying for you all. A great performance I must admit. Let us repeat this again. Respect to the trainers and others who put this Dream Team together. From a Jamaican Living in the USA and definately not ashamed of either.

LIGHTING BOLT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THE FAEST MAN ALIVE!! BIG UPS!!

Usain Bolt of Jamaica easily broke his own world record in the 100 meters to win the Olympic gold medal Saturday night, slowing up to celebrate and still finishing in 9.69 seconds.

Bolt stretched his arms out wide and put his palms out, then slapped his chest just before crossing the line. He came in well below his old mark of 9.72 seconds, set May 31 in New York - less than a year after Bolt took up the dash.

What had been billed as a showdown was not close at all. Richard Thompson of Trinidad took the silver medal in 9.89, and Walter Dix of the United States was third in 9.91.

The 21-year-old Bolt's performance left no doubt whatsoever about who deserves the title of "World's Fastest Man."

Former world record-holder Asafa Powell of Jamaica was fifth, while reigning world champion Tyson Gay of the United States failed to qualify for the final.

Bolt's specialty has been the 200 meters, which he will be a heavy favorite to win next week in what would be first men's Olympic sprint double since Carl Lewis in 1988. But he persuaded his coach to let him try the dash - and what quick progress Bolt has made.

CUTTIE PIE!! Lolo Jones crashes and burns

Jones crashes and burns, Harper’s surprise

American Lolo Jones lost control and “crashed and burned” to hand a surprise Olympic gold medal to her compatriot Dawn Harper in the women’s 100 metres hurdles on Tuesday.

The 26-year-old, who used her athletic and academic prowess to get her out of poverty and was favourite to win the race, finished seventh after hitting the penultimate hurdle.

“You hit a hurdle about twice a year where it affects your race,” said Jones, tears welling up in her striking green eyes. “It’s just a shame that it was on the biggest race of my life.

“The hurdles were just coming up very fast and I just told myself what I always tell myself, ‘keep things tight’.

“But it’s kind of like when you are racing a car and going max velocity and you hit a curve, either you can maintain control or you can crash and burn. Today I crashed and burned.”

Harper admitted she was a surprise winner.

“You have certain people that are supposed to be the favourites,” she said. “On this particular day, and at this time, you have to run your best race.

“It’s anyone’s race … we do hurdles, and they come at you really fast. You have to execute your race.”

GAVE SUPPORT

The 24-year-old said three-times Olympic champion Jackie Joyner-Kersee, who also comes from East St Louis and is the wife of Harper’s coach Bob Kersee, had given her support.

“She sent me an email telling me ‘You can do it, stay focused, it’s about you. When you race on that day and that time, focus on you’,” she said.

Harper did just that when Jones, who was leading the race, hit the hurdle.

“I felt something happened I didn’t know how serious it was but … you have to focus on you because if I got caught up in her, then who knows what’ll happen to me,” she said.

Sally McLellan was an equally surprising silver medallist for Australia and admitted that she had not believed her own prediction that she would win a medal. “I lied to you,” the 21-year-old said after a photo finish separated her from bronze medallist Priscilla Lopes-Schliep. “In my heart I didn’t think I’d medal. But then I did.”

Jones remained kneeling on the track for a long time after the race.

“It was difficult to get back up,” Jones said. “Tonight will be hard, tomorrow will be hard. I just have to get myself back up.” (Additional reporting by John Ruwitch and Gene Cherry; Editing by Ed Osmond)

WTF?? CHINA KEEPS CHEATING!!!!!!

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UNDERAGE!!!!!!!!!!
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IS SHE REALLY 16??? HECK NAW!!!!!!!!!

NOW THEY LYING ABOUT THERE ATHLETES AGE!!!
Just nine months before the Beijing Olympics, the Chinese government's news agency, Xinhua, reported that gymnast He Kexin was 13, which would have made her ineligible to be on the team that won a gold medal this week.
In its report Nov. 3, Xinhua identified He as one of "10 big new stars" who made a splash at China's Cities Games. It gave her age as 13 and reported that she beat Yang Yilin on the uneven bars at those games. In the final, "this little girl" pulled off a difficult release move on the bars known as the Li Na, named for another Chinese gymnast, Xinhua said in the report, which appeared on one of its Web sites, http://www.hb.xinhuanet.com

The Associated Press found the Xinhua report on the site Thursday morning and saved a copy of the page. Later that afternoon, the Web site was still working but the page was no longer accessible. Sports editors at the state-run news agency would not comment for publication.

If the age reported by Xinhua was correct, that would have meant He was too young to be on the Chinese team that beat the United States on Wednesday and clinched China's first women's team Olympic gold in gymnastics. He is also a favorite for gold in Monday's uneven bars final.

Yang was also on Wednesday's winning team. Questions have also been raised about her age and that of a third team member, Jiang Yuyuan.

Gymnasts have to be 16 during the Olympic year to be eligible for the games. He's birthday is listed as Jan. 1, 1992.

Chinese authorities insist that all three are old enough to compete. He herself told reporters after Wednesday's final that "my real age is 16. I don't pay any attention to what everyone says."

Zhang Hongliang, an official with China's gymnastics delegation at the games, said Thursday the differing ages which have appeared in Chinese media reports had not been checked in advance with the gymnastics federation.

"It's definitely a mistake," Zhang said of the Xinhua report, speaking in a telephone interview. "Never has any media outlet called me to check the athletes' ages."

Asked whether the federation had changed their ages to make them eligible, Zhang said: "We are a sports department. How would we have the ability to do that?"

"We already explained this very clearly. There's no need to discuss this thing again."

The International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) has said repeatedly that a passport is the "accepted proof of a gymnast's eligibility," and that He and China's other gymnasts have presented ones that show they are age eligible. The IOC also checked the girls' passports and deemed them valid.

A May 23 story in the China Daily newspaper, the official English-language paper of the Chinese government, said He was 14. The story was later corrected to list her as 16.

"This is not a USAG issue," said Steve Penny, president of USA Gymnastics. "The FIG and the IOC are the proper bodies to handle this."

CHINA!! CHEATING IN THE OLYMPICS???????????

Ara Abrahamian Throws away olympic bronze medal!

Swedish Wrestler Ara Abrahamian Throws away olympic bronzemedal after being wrongly DQ in the semifinal. Afterwards he said in an interview "i threw it away because it means nothing to me they(the judges) have destroyed for me too many times now I quit"