Phelps' finger tips were already bending by the time the other guy's finger tips touched the wall. He won.
Ive been watching him and this guy is amazing. Dara Torres is another swimmer that Ive been watching.
Why are people trying to determine who won by watching and rewatching the video? I believe Phelps one by 1/100th of a second, according to the sensors. I imagine that's not noticeable by the naked eye.
What Phelps is doing is nothing short of f'in phenomenal. I think he's got a pretty good shot of winning tonight. Hell, he's won 7 already right?
It is still incredible what he is doing! Bringing this high level on so many days in a row is practically impossible. And it is true that a lot of world records get broken at each Olympics, but the amount of records broken at swimming this year and the many seconds by which they are getting broken is not... sure it could be the suit, but that would have to be one really amazing suit that is soo much better than the already great suits they had last year. There is a doping dealer in the USA that now is a key witness against doping. According to him no swimmer that is swimming in an olympic final is clean. When you can dope and know for sure, that it can`t be proven you took it, it sounds really tempting to use it. Again, all of this doesn`t mean he or anybody else did dope. No matter what Phelps is probably one of the best swimmers of all time, similar to Lance Armstrong (who took doping as was proven several years later, when the doping offices were able to) for the cycling sport. But I think you at least have to mention the possibility...
I think I heard Phelps and some other american athletes volunteered for some new fangled doping testing
You are correct pgabriel Phelps did volunteer for the USADA's "Project Believe". Link: http://www.nbcolympics.com/swimming/news/newsid=219455.html?GT1=39003
Hehe... perhaps Germans that lost trust in the sports of cycling after the last years? (which also hit several germans...). But actually I didn`t make up anything... the doping labratory Chatenay-Malabry in Paris has found EPO in six different urine samples of Lance Armstrong from the time of his firste Tour de France victory 1999 in the year 2005. In 1999 it wasn`t possible to detect this kind of EPO in the blood. When they unfroze his urine in 2005 they were able to detect it.
I think his nation put in a protest, but upon seeing the video/replay, they all agreed not to pursue it any further. I think the swimmer himself made the comment he didn't want to pursue the protest any further.
Here is one in english: http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/news/story?id=2140893 Although there is no 100% prove possible, if you read all the reports and all the interviews with old teammates etc. it is very likely that he and probably nearly everyone back then was using doping, since there was no way anyone could detect it. And if you think about it: most of his opponents have already confessed or been tested positive, and he still dominated everyone for 6 years in a row after having cancer... I think everyone just needs to be a little bit skeptical...
