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  • who actually seriously gives a shit

  • they can't ban him

    he's the most importance for USA swim team!

  • marijuana makes him swim so good

  • he might not qualify. he smoked a marijuanna pipe. probably made him slow and stupid like everyone thinks. MARIJUANA DOSENT KILL. HATE AND STUPIDITY KILLED MORE PEOPLE

  • thats bullshit .

  • uhh, he smoked a marijuana bong?

    not a pipe?

    jeez get it right mr reporter man lol

  • if you win 8 gold medals for your country, you should be allowed to smoke weed

  • Exactly, michael phelps is the best athlete known to man. People make fun about him smoking some marijuana, have nothing better to do.

  • SERIOUSLY why is everyone mking such a big deal out of it everyone in their life would probably try it so whatever

  • if you like dope copy and paste

    HIP HIP HOORAY

  • on your own bitch

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  • oh wow he smoked a bong pipe? was there weed? wasnt there? was there? wasnt there? OMG gossip time!! who the hell cares if he smoked meth? i dont

  • he drove drunk what the crap and now.....

    lets smoke some fricken pot yeah lets go to a college party and get his picture taken for a tabloid yaaaaayyyyy

  • give him a break. he's cooler now that he smokes weed

  • For some people even food is a drug. Give him a break! This guy really rocks.

  • What mistake?

  • His "mistake" was drunk driving, and thats why he went to jail for three months. Three months in jail means three month suspension.

  • he didn't go to jail dumbass

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  • Phelps is too good

  • He's a good guy. He took responsibility.

  • obama smoked too...many times

  • the picture= no smoke in the chamber....theirs no proof its him until he admits its him..gg

  • you honestly think he is not smoking pot with a water pipe?

    even if you're talking of legality issues it still won't matter if there is smoke. they can't charge him anything serious + hes rich so... if he denied it or accepted it'd be fine either way, but accepting it gave him a better view from the public

  • blakebellamy82 - you are an idiot and should rid the world of your ignorance - as in KILL YOURSELF

    neongreen5 - no one is going to sit in jail for a picture with a bong you dumb ass.

    you assholes act like you have done everything perfect in your life. get over yourselves and let the man live

  • for reals... It is not a big deal!! alot of people do it.

  • if you had something to say to me why didnt you reply to me then be so immature.

  • dude swimming is fucking awesome, kill yourself

  • It may be but Chuck Norris isn't!!

  • hes gay stupid a drunk and a junky and who cares about swimming anyway

  • I bet your parents did it.... I also bet ur close friends have... No big deal!!! Just some people try.

  • my parents hate drugs and i do too but one of my friends did.I dont associate myself with drug atticks.

  • Why would you hate drugs? Oh wait, you don't think for yourself.

  • ahh i dont know because they are sooo bad for you their illigal and i have seen what they can do to someone and i can tell you do them

  • So if something is illegal it must be wrong?...like when slaves would try to escape from their owners during the american age of slavery? Btw, the most dangerous drug in terms of fatalities, alcohol, is legal.

  • Dude, don't go at blakebellamy like that... I have have no problem with marijuana use, although I personally don't do it myself. Many of my friends and close relatives do it, usually around me, but I choose not to...people make choices. You also have to consider blake's age (based on grammar and spelling). Most young people are quick to state they hate drugs when they are younger and haven't been exposed, don't knock them for that. Not defending hating drugs, but the opinion shouldnt be attacked

  • well put.

    Phelps just needs some space.

  • All the black people were cool with him smoking weed in the video lol...

  • The only stupid judgment he had was letting someone take a picture of him hitting the bong. Other than that, he did nothing wrong.

  • They should let him sit in jail and think about this mistake for a few years.

  • Dude People try it out, No big deal! I bet alot of people have tryed it who are close to u.... Like ur parents maybe? It's a mistake not the biggest deal like people try to make it..

  • Weed is not a performance enhancing drug. phelps should get another medal for swimming while high.. because that is HARD

  • Aww :(

  • Unfortunately enough we live in an irrational world where everyone is criticized about how poorly one conducts his own behavior..Honestly though, this is a great way of bringing intelligence and ability into the wonderful world of THC. I don't see Mr. Phelps as a bad person, just like me 100% motivation plus a coexisting relationship with marijuana. Recipe for Success...As If the 8 gold wasn't enough evidence :)

  • Haha 3 month suspension. Like he really needs to swim or train now. 

    I expect him to get more sponsors as companies realize the potential of the stoner demographic.

    And to the "role model" trolls, what does it say to america's overweight fat kids when Phelps downs a days worth of food during breakfast?

  • wow! there some crazy comments out there. . . how did it get so far from the issue? A young kid, super talented decided to experiment with pot, who knows for how long, and got caught? Whats the big deal? Is it that he could be that great of an athlete and, until now what we all thought was a great person, and also, oh my god!, smoke marijuana? I think there more important issues to get bent out of shape about.

  • Can you guess which USA President smoked pot in the white house? it wasnt bill clinton.

    Drugs are personal choice, and should be legal.

  • Personally, I have no problem with what Phelps did. He smoked a recreational drug that has lower impact on the long term human condition than many of our legal drugs; tobacco and alcohol included. It isn't a performance enhancer either. Ask yourself this, if pot was legal would this be an issue?

  • "Ya hear that kids?! Smoking makes you swim fast!"

    "Oh, okay well I didn't want to swim fast anyway..."

    "But it's Michael Phelps! Don't you want to be like him?!"

    "No..."

    "Well we already made a big deal over this so could you at least pretend to be upset?"

  • phelps gets away with stuff because he is a national hero. But he should realize that this mistake has made alot of his younger followers think that maybe they also need to use drugs to become champions...

    Get this guy some help... He can afford it. Before he turns into a dumb ass and throws all his talents away....

  • Actually it shows that you can smoke weed in moderation and still be an amazing athlete. His prior drunk driving shows that you can be an amazing athlete and be a jerk. What all this shows is that we should stop encouraging our children to look up to athletes whose accomplishments are meaningless and don't contribute anything to society except to encourage and inspire people who would also like to dedicate their life to meaningless accomplishments. Who cares what Phelps does, it doesn't matter.

  • give the guy a break he won 8 gold medals, but the drunk driving thing in my opinion is a bigger deal.

  • I smoked out with him before.

  • STONER!!!

  • damn. I wanna party with phelps. hahhhh :)

  • leave him alone!!!! I can totally understand why people are talking about this so much but come on! he's 23..probably never smoked weed before and decided to live a little....damn he's 100 time's more healthy than anyone who is comnplaning about it. I can understand steroids but weed would only hurt hime so why suspend him, he would only be hurting himself....

  • Damn white people with their free passes. Underage Phelps arrested 4 drunk driving in 2004, "Oops! Sorry, I won't make the same mistake again!" And no he didn't make the same mistake, he decided 2 get high out of a bong. "Srry, the USA suspension is fair!" Must b great 2 b white in America, all the damn free passes! & thanks 4 ruining the image of Baltimore my home town, Phelps, dumbass white idiot.

  • What do you think would have happened if he had been black?

  • he would have sunk?

  • Interesting point, but probably the same.

  • free passes? what like a bus pass?

  • Dude's not just a "white guy", he's the most winning Olympian in history. Fuck off with your racist bullshit.

  • If u wasn't so racist, u wouldn't b supporting this pothead. what if it was ?Snoopy Doggy Dogg, then u couldn't wait 2 hang him from the nearest tree! Admit it B4TT3RY! ADMIT U WOULD LYNCH SNOOP DOOGY DOGg IF U HAD THE CHANGE, JUST ADMIT IT U RACIST!

  • You really don't know me. I bet I have more of Snoop's albums than you. I guarantee it. Admit it you racist, you just don't like white people regardless of how they think of you.

  • Aw, man get outta here. U ain't got no Snop Dogg album. I got Snoop Dogg's Doggstyle, very 1st album! I bet u don't have that! If u don't have his very 1st album then that makes u a racist!

  • fool me once, shame on you. fool me twice, shame on me

  • fool me once shame on you, fool me again, huuh huuuh huuuh, you can't fool me again.

  • I think they caught him right after lighting something up from 0:24 - 0:30

  • This guy is accomplished, has apologized , and has lost endorsement deals. I think thats more then enough punishment for smoking out of a bong. The guy didn't kill anyone or even take any enhancing drugs. Get over it please. He has suffered enough over nothing much. As far as him being a role model , Parents should stop letting the tv and internet be a babysitter and actually spend some time with their kids. Then maybe the kids would look up to the parents instead of celebrities.

  • i don't even see how it's a big deal. people make mistakes and do dumb shit, get over it.

  • No mistake here!!! You smoke fucking Right!!!!!! dont let anyone bring you down!!! cause not one of those fat fucking media bitches could ever win 8 gold medals !!!!

  • Let him live his life. He has a talent. Plain and Simple. I understand if he loses his endorsements due to illegal activity, that is understandable. But this role model bullshit has to quit. People are people. It's not a "mistake" he is young and he wanted to smoke some weed. That is the problem with my country, the people. Talent is a blessing, yet jealous people like to place talented people under a microscope and expose them to feel better about their mundane selves.

  • wow. Over reaction, much?

  • Typical bland reporting. BORING.

  • 75 year old middle aged white man.

  • Z-money, I'm sure you're not 13.

  • Some of you guys are idiots. Pot doesn't make you better, if anything, it makes you worse. But still, real stupid move by Phelps, he thinks that since he's Michael Phelps he can smoke pot? He may be a great athlete, but he's an idiot.

  • i agree! that's what i've been trying to tell them all along!

    and the drunk driving incident? just another "mistake"? i think not. it was idiotic as well

    think before you act, michael phelps!!

  • To anyone who smokes anything, STOP! Are you trying to kill yourself?!? Notice how our bodies start to cough when we're exposed to smoke, it's telling you HELLO what you're breathing in is not beneficial for your health!!! You're pathetic if you waste your money killing yourself!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • i agree!! smokers are stupid!!!!

  • Obamas new cabinet is more criminally guilty than Phelps

  • 8 gold medals can't be wrong, its time to legalize Marijuana.

  • ur a crack head

  • lmao!

  • he only won the golds because of pot!

  • pot makes you worse at sports

  • unless its competitive eating competitions

  • LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • haha michael phelps! you got busted! you idiot

  • lol haha wut an idiot

  • Fair my ass! Personally, I'll be boycotting all Kellogg's products forever because of their treatment of this. I hope others do the same.

  • How cool he smokes. I'd love to toke up with him some day. Who cares if he smokes. LOSERS!

  • you're stupid

  • ya he is

  • FUCK KELLOGG'S anti-Marijuana is anti-American the constitution was written on hemp

  • its not that serious. put phelps back on the cereal box or im never buying cereal again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • I think it's bullcrap that this man can break an assload of world records, revolutionize the sport, and singlehandedly steal the Olympic spotlight, and not even be allowed to just chill out, relax and smoke a freaking joint.

    I think that his awesomeness proves that marijuana use is not positively related to human deficiency.

    Why can't sober people understand that?

  • what a powerful statement for the safe and beneficial use of cannabis. It is the one smart thing m. phelps has done.

  • PS

    I would never want to bring him down.

    WTF is wrong with the JO who ratted him out?!

    At least the DB didn't call the Fuzz on him

  • micahel phelps is mah god.. i got fucked for smokin weed and my rents tell me its fucking my life up... HE WON 8 GOLD MEDALS AND SMOKES WEED.. you can tell that he has been blazin for a while

  • Yeah. I'd agree with your "rents" on this one. I'd say getting involved in any kind of substance usage when you're only fifteen years old qualifies as "fucking your life up."

    Way to go there, champ.

    Oh yeah. Do you really mean to suggest that smoking weed has somehow improved his swimming ability? Pardon my skepticism and laughter.

  • Proof again, you CANNOT trust your dopefiend "friends"

  • its a good thing your opinion doesnt mean shit

  • Dude should enter the bong olympics —he's got lung power!

  • Bong Olympics?!

    Now that is Phunny!

  • Swimming does not make one a hero, landing planes that are crashing with no fatalities makes one a hero and I still wouldnt care if that person was a pot smoker either unless he was flying the plane while high.

  • You've been miserably sober your entire life. I feel sorry for you.

  • My apologies but I dont understand what you mean Im for the legalization of marijuana and feel its dumb for anyone to care that Phelps smoked it.

  • calm down america....

  • He smoked pot, he apologized, he got punished. Let that be that.

    Phelps is one of the few athletes that can actually take responsibility for his actions unlike OJ Simpson or Marion Jones.

  • big ups 2 micheal phelps keep smoking that shit lol

  • Technically he hasn´t done it again, now hes a pothead and he won´t do that again. Next time he´ll do some heroin and get caught and he will say that he won´t do it again and then it will be horse tranquilizers and he´ll get caught and he´ll say he won´t doit again and then it will be... Thank God he isn´t Black, he´d be in jail right now!!!

  • Thats retarded

    Michael Jackson is African American and he has been accused of child molestation TWICE and hes not in jail.

    OJ simpson is finally in jail but not even for his major crime which was murder.

    rapper T.I. was involved with illegal weapons and his punishment is he gets to have his own T.V. show on MTV

    and ohhh yeah white people get away with everyyythinggggg. my ass.

  • In 1968 Mexico City Olympics, 2 African American Runners, one a Gold medalist and the other a Bronze medalist, Tommie Smith and John Carlos; lifted up a Black glove in solidarity with a political belief. They were stripped of their medals and banned from competing ever again. The fact is that the white and the rich can get away with anything in America! Wheres the change?

  • Let's go forward in time and not backward. You're 40 years ago analogy is not on comment. Racist division needs to stop!

  • Let´s go forward, right. Thats what they said when they pardoned Nixon, and now they´re letting the Bush Genocide slide and now it´s the token swimmer. When will you learn. And I say it again, if he were black he would be in jail. They would probably find some chic to say they got raped by him too.

  • Lets go foward ?, how can you make a statement like that ? This had nothing to do with the color of his skin . Thats a racist statement ."WE AS AMERICANS" shall move foward . I am white and I am proud that I voted for OBAMA, I am proud of our black president. To say if he was black he would be thrown in jail is a joke .What they should do is take all his medals away with his tittle . He was to represent what is good about America. SHAME ON HIM & THE OLYMPICS

  • You're racist comments have nothing to do with this incident regarding Phelps. You are a YT shill stirring up sh*t!

  • A racist comment? This is a fact!!! Who´s agenda are you pushing here? The truth will always stand no matter what, that´s what we voted for and thats what we expect. We are tired of this look the other way political agenda, we want action and we want it now!!! Let´s see some heads roll!

  • The criminalization of hemp is NOT a racist issue it is a money issue. The more that the powers that be can criminalize people for their use of this herb the more money they make in keeping it illegal. The most important reason for keeping it illegal is to not allow the many uses of hemp to interfer with their money machine. Check out William Randolph Herst and go from there to get where I am on this agenda.

  • Listen you potthead, this isn´t about being for or against canabis. This is about the action taken against an ofense by a Gold Medalist which is a role model for our youth, we don´t need anymore Paris Hiltons, Nicole Simpson or Brittney Spears want to be´s terrorizing our streets!

  • Listen you HOTHEAD, don't preach to me about Phelps ruining the lives of our children. The places you need to look for that accusation is the movie and music industry who are demoralizing and satanizing our children. Phelps is a ripple in the lake and you are riding on the emotion of his mistake as if it will ruin everything in the world. Give me a break!

  • I see from your tone you´ve moved on from pot to coke, I must admit that trying to use a Gold Medalist as a Poster Boy for Drugs can get you ahead in the game, but it isn´t going to work. You potheads are breaking the law, just like he did and he should pay the appropriate penalty for his action! If you do the Crime be ready to do some time!

  • You're brain is washed.

  • And you´ve got very few functional neuron´s left in your brain. Grow up and act responsible.

  • Yes it is about the legalization of cannabis. It is demonized in the corporate media, then prohibition is carried out by repeating pieces of shit like yourself. The fact that it is illegal is a crime against humanity, and should let all of you know the truth that indeed we are slaves. Come with original arguments not pre-packaged ideas from the corporate media.

  • I think you should go see your parole officer, and take your monthly drug test. I understand those years in prison were hard but you´ll get over it. No matter what happened to you in jail you are still a man.

  • Denial of truth by using humor is common amongst slaves. Go back to fucking sleep moron.

  • unfunny humor at that..women aren't funny

  • No one can be put in jail for a tabloid taking a picture of them doing something illegal that no one actually cares about, and to even try to compare smoking pot with leading a country to commit mass murder is beyond sick.

  • You must have some sort of reading disability, try reading it slooooowllllyyyy. I´m sure you´ll get it this time around. Good Boy!

  • Excuse me? Did you or didn't you compare Phelps being let of he hook to Bush being let off the hook? You did. Did you or didn't you say Phelps should be thrown in jail? You did. So obviously you didn't understand what I said, no problem, I'll simplify it for you. You're a prick, and an idiot. Most Western countries have decriminalized pot, and nobody cares anymore because it isn't worth caring about. Get over it. Stop being a tool and stop trolling YT, you're fucking pathetic.

  • I´m just here to say that your weetarded, weeeeetaaaarrrrddeeeeed, go tell your mom to clean you up. When you can understand grown up talk, you can come in on the conversation. Go read your High Times magazine with your pothead friends!

  • thermalGeek, you could really use a bong hit ,you prude bitch. After what Phelps sacraficed to bring home the Gold to the US, he can smoke all the weed he likes. Got it ? Neuron boy ?

  • Yeah go read high times you fucking dirty pothead waste of life then maybe get 8 gold medals

  • Pot makes my girlfriend horny. That's a good enough reason for me.Legalize pot and make love !!!

  • go drink your beer you sloppy pot bellied drunk and then run over a chruch bus after leaving the bar and go home and hit your woman you fuckin bitchy , gripey lush.

  • lol

  • Our forefathers used to grow weed, Thermalgeek. The constitution is written on hemp paper. and my favorite Olympic athelete uses it to relax. Alcohol has over 60 realted illnesses associated with it. Is alcohol OK, just because it is legal ? Pot is illegal for political reasons, not detremantal medical ones, u frickin Einstein...Eisntein somked weed and so did Sigmund Freud and your favorite president Bill Clinton. I will continue to sell weed because it should be enjoyed by those who want to .

  • Thanks for the confession, I have your IP address now, you can expect a visit from your local police department. Better get rid of your stash or see you in jail, LOL!!!

  • Fascist

  • You really think that? I think you should calibrate your balance.

  • this is so retarded...

  • The fog was probably from the humidity at the pool. I thought it was ironic, given his charges.

    Is this the worst we've seen athletes do in this country? It'd be ridiculous to punish him further. He made a dumb choice, one that's not hard to do when you've grown up concentrating on a strict routine in order to reach his goal.

    At least he admits to his mistake, was very honest and forthcoming about it, and is taking the punishment gracefully. Can't say that a lot about a lot of athletes.

  • Let him smoke his pot. Its not a big deal at all. Its not as dangerous as alcohol and he can obviously handle it fine. I got your back Michael. Im a bigger fan now.

    Legalize it.

  • Dumbest drummed up story evar!

    Entertainment news trash!

    GTFOYT AP!

  • a man smokes pot why is this even a news story

  • OMG it was a natural herb what is wrong with wanting to feel good with pot if it has no ill effects? Im so tired of people deciding what is good or bad for my body and trying to make it illegal for my use of such organics, worry about yourselves and stay out of other peoples business.

  • Why should phelps be banned for life? Hope your reasons are actually logical.

  • he broke the law

  • Which law? and in which country? If you mean the one run by the 1620 Puritans, possibly....but geez. Get a grip.

  • marijuana is illegal in most countries around the world

  • Alcohol was once illegal too. So was human rights. Our country started on breaking oppresive laws. I suggest you respect these words:

    "Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual." -Thomas Jefferson

    Banned for life? Are you kidding? people like you are unreal

  • why the fuck are you quoting some shit? steroids are illegal IN SPORTS you moron and for a good reason

    and alcohol is ILLEGAL to consume if you're gonna operate a car

  • The point is that legality is a HORRIBLE barometer for stating whats right or wrong. That "some shit" I'm quoting is directly to the point of what I'm talking about, which you are apparently ignorant of. Steroids are illegal in sports because ITS CHEATING. Yeah, thats a good reason. Whats the "good reason" for weed? Alcohol is legal to buy and use. If youre not aware of that, youre a complete dumbfuck

  • They need to cut his some slack! Geeze!

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  • He will get his act togeather soon. martinmary555 catch my video

  • If it's okay for the CIA to run drugs into USA to make money for black operations why isn't it okay for us to use them. Our government is hypocritical illegal and criminal. Especially when it comes to 9/11.

  • Please substantiate your claim with evidence. Especially since you're saying outlandish things.

    Where's your evidence that the government is bringing the drugs in to make money, and then busting people for using them?

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  • Holy crap PatrickDunnevant, where have you been the past 40 yrs? LMAO research much? Our govt has done MANY horrible things and there is MUCH documentation on it.

  • hell 3 months for a photo. hell what year is this? now your not allowed to make mistakes. That might of been his first time trying pot out. I probably take a toke if i didn't have a life but swimming and media on my ass all day. 8 gold medals so i don't think pot affected him. Pot never killed anyone. booze kills all the time.

  • why did AP fog up phelps the 2nd time..

    why is AP so biased.. just fucking report the news.

  • I didn't get the whole "fog" thing either.

  • Its from the heat from the pool.

  • Dont forget to bring your towel!