You can’t be in the spotlight forever!
As most of you know, Golden Boy Michael Phelps is trying to break the record set by Mark Spitz in 1972 for the most gold medals won by an athlete in a single Olympic Games (seven).
However, Spitz is spitting mad that he wasn’t invited by NBC or the Olympic committee to attend the games in Beijing.
He thinks he should have been invited to the Games this year, with Phelps making a go at his record:
“I never got invited. You don’t go to the Olympics just to say, I am going to go. Especially because of who I am. I am going to sit there and watch Michael Phelps break my record anonymously? That’s almost demeaning to me. It is not almost — it is…They voted me one of the top five Olympians in all time. Some of them are dead. But they invited the other ones to go to the Olympics, but not me. Yes, I am a bit upset about it.””
Seriously?
He sounds like a bit of a diva.
Maybe that’s why they wanted to keep him away!
Spitz is now a stockbroker and motivational speaker.
He also thinks he could have won eight golds himself in Munich if only he had had the chance:
He says, “I won seven events. If they had the 50m freestyle back then, which they do now, I probably would have won that too.”
We really hope Phelps breaks Spitz’s record!
[Image via WENN.]
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