It’s like the juiced up pot – that has been systematically tampering with drug tests for years – calling the kettle black.
Michael Phelps is taking two more pieces of gold back to his mother lode in the USA.
The American swimmer claimed his 20th and 21st Olympic gold medals after another mighty effort in the pool, last night.
Phelps began a highly entertaining evening in the pool by claiming the Men’s 200m Butterfly crown after avenging his London 2012 defeat to South Africa’s Chad Le Clos. “I wanted that one back,” Phelps told reporters in Rio. “I came into the pool tonight with a mission and the mission was accomplished.”
The mission was accomplished-er (our new, Phelpsien word) when the 31-year-old helped Team USA to another gold in the 4x200m freestyle relay. That makes it three golds for Phelps at Rio 2016 after his part in the 4x100m freestyle relay win on Sunday.
Amid the celebrations, and declarations that Phelps is the greatest Olympian of all time, there was one dissenting voice… from Russia.
Yes, the same Russia that was only allowed compete after a late International Olympic Committee shanking of the issue of bans for systematic blood doping and test tampering over the past eight years.
Phelps has benefited from cupping therapy to ‘increase flow and energy through heat and suction’. The therapy is legal under IOC rules but a Russian sports anchor likened it to athletes taking meldonium [a banned Performance Enhancing Drug]. A Russia 24 report noted:
‘Following the Hollywood trend, the method was adapted by athletes… the net effect from such [cupping therapy] practices in many ways, is not unlike those of meldonium.’
You just couldn’t be happy for him, could you Russia?
