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My swing feels like an unfolding lawn chair.
why try? if i were him i'd pick my best 4 races or so and go for those. what he did this week does not need to be topped.
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exhawg;1232010; said:
I'm sure he would go for 9 gold medals.
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ScriptOhio
Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
Agent: Phelps could earn $100 million over lifetime
Timothy A. Clary/AFP/Getty Images
Michael Phelps has already received a $1 million bonus from Speedo for his record performance in Beijing.
Michael Phelps proved he is the Olympic gold standard.
Now he's chasing a different kind of gold -- from corporations. And the question out there is whether Phelps can prove he's worth as much (if not more) out of the pool as he is in it.
Entering the Beijing Games, Phelps was reportedly earning an estimated $5 million annually from corporate endorsements, with deals from companies like AT&T, Visa, PowerBar, Omega and Speedo. Now that he's won eight gold medals, breaking Mark Spitz's 36-year-old record of seven in one Olympic Games, many in the sports marketing industry believe Phelps' corporate income could set new records.
Some wondered what Phelps might have been thinking when he turned pro at the tender age of 15 -- who on Earth would endorse a teenage swimmer? -- but no one seems to be questioning that decision now.
"Michael Phelps is going to have no problem from here on out," said Scott Sanford, managing director at the Dallas-based Davie-Brown talent group. "He will have star power."
According to Sanford, whose company tries to quantify an athlete's or celebrity's endorsement potential, Phelps' worth has skyrocketed. The company won't have updated figures for a couple of days, but those numbers, clearly, are expected to jump.
Typically, swimmers, even those at the top, are a commodity only every four years, when the Olympics are at the forefront of America's attention. Phelps, whose ultimate goal was to change the sport of swimming, might have changed that conventional wisdom -- at least for his own brand.
"He has transcended himself into a position that is going to sustain him for a long time," Sanford said. "He has separated himself from just being a swimmer."
Phelps, whose heroics in Beijing have landed him on the front pages of newspapers around the globe, has been likened to numerous athletic superstars. NBC's Bob Costas has mentioned Phelps in the same breath as Tiger Woods, Joe Montana and Michael Jordan, select company to be sure.
Of course, people are also mentioning his name along with that of Spitz. Evan Morgenstein, Spitz's agent, said he and Spitz are open to the possibility of joint appearances or endorsement deals, but so far, nothing has come up. Spitz has been able to stand the test of time. He's a sought-after speaker and endorses companies like Medco, a health benefits corporation, even though his best days in the pool were back in 1972.
"Marketing potential is such a tough question," Morgenstein wrote in an e-mail from Beijing. "It's defined by whether he is thought of by performance or stature/story. If America believes his struggle to achieve eight golds has a broader good than just victories, he will earn millions of dollars forever."
The business decisions Phelps makes over the next two years -- if not the next two weeks -- will be critical. Appearances and endorsement possibilities will be flying from every direction, and he and his longtime agent, Peter Carlisle of Octagon, will have to be careful about their decisions.
Carlisle told The Wall Street Journal on Monday that he expects Phelps' current annual earnings to at least double.
"What is the value of eight golds in Beijing before a prime-time audience in the U.S?" Carlisle told the newspaper. "I'd say $100 million over the course of his lifetime."
Speedo has already paid him a $1 million bonus for breaking Spitz's record. Just as records can be broken in the pool, so can contracts on land. According to The Wall Street Journal on Monday, Phelps' worth to Nike could be $40 million.
Speedo has long been considered the swimming company, and its LZR Racer suits were worn by the dominant swimmers in the Games. Twenty-four world records were broken by swimmers sporting Speedos in Beijing.
Phelps also will be the spokesman for the beverage PureSport, which is about to launch its first national ad campaign with the swimmer. Phelps and the rest of the men's and women's U.S. swim teams are receiving free pizza and pasta for a year from Pizza Hut. Another one of his sponsors, Kellogg Co., is also looking into possible deals. Plus, he's hearing from potential consumers online -- reportedly 795,000 people have signed up as fans of Phelps on Facebook.
The magic of Olympic staying power is tricky. What can seem so important today might not down the road. Mary Lou Retton captured gold in 1984 and remains a household name. Carly Patterson also struck gold in women's gymnastics four years ago, but she hasn't made the same impact. Who knows how long-term America's memories of newly crowned gymnastics champion Nastia Liukin will be?
Some companies were savvy enough to figure out Phelps would be a worthwhile investment years ago. Visa and PowerBar, for instance, have backed him since 2002. PowerBar launched a TV ad campaign featuring Phelps back in March. Visa created two special-edition national TV ads to celebrate Phelps' achievements in Beijing.
"Michael is leaving Beijing as a global sports icon," said Michael Lynch, head of Visa's global sponsorship management. "We look forward to new opportunities post-Beijing that will reinforce our relationship with him on a global stage."
Phelps plans to move back to his hometown in Baltimore following these Games in Beijing. He has lived and trained at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor for four years, following the 2004 Games in Athens, where he collected six golds and two bronze. Baltimore is home and Phelps seems more than ready to return, but it is also a somewhat provincial city.
Cal Ripken Jr., for one, can attest to that. But Ripken and his handlers have made certain that he has made himself a fixture in the community.
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Entire article: ESPN - Agent: Phelps could earn $100 million over lifetime - Olympics
Timothy A. Clary/AFP/Getty Images
Michael Phelps has already received a $1 million bonus from Speedo for his record performance in Beijing.
Michael Phelps proved he is the Olympic gold standard.
Now he's chasing a different kind of gold -- from corporations. And the question out there is whether Phelps can prove he's worth as much (if not more) out of the pool as he is in it.
Entering the Beijing Games, Phelps was reportedly earning an estimated $5 million annually from corporate endorsements, with deals from companies like AT&T, Visa, PowerBar, Omega and Speedo. Now that he's won eight gold medals, breaking Mark Spitz's 36-year-old record of seven in one Olympic Games, many in the sports marketing industry believe Phelps' corporate income could set new records.
Some wondered what Phelps might have been thinking when he turned pro at the tender age of 15 -- who on Earth would endorse a teenage swimmer? -- but no one seems to be questioning that decision now.
"Michael Phelps is going to have no problem from here on out," said Scott Sanford, managing director at the Dallas-based Davie-Brown talent group. "He will have star power."
According to Sanford, whose company tries to quantify an athlete's or celebrity's endorsement potential, Phelps' worth has skyrocketed. The company won't have updated figures for a couple of days, but those numbers, clearly, are expected to jump.
Typically, swimmers, even those at the top, are a commodity only every four years, when the Olympics are at the forefront of America's attention. Phelps, whose ultimate goal was to change the sport of swimming, might have changed that conventional wisdom -- at least for his own brand.
"He has transcended himself into a position that is going to sustain him for a long time," Sanford said. "He has separated himself from just being a swimmer."
Phelps, whose heroics in Beijing have landed him on the front pages of newspapers around the globe, has been likened to numerous athletic superstars. NBC's Bob Costas has mentioned Phelps in the same breath as Tiger Woods, Joe Montana and Michael Jordan, select company to be sure.
Of course, people are also mentioning his name along with that of Spitz. Evan Morgenstein, Spitz's agent, said he and Spitz are open to the possibility of joint appearances or endorsement deals, but so far, nothing has come up. Spitz has been able to stand the test of time. He's a sought-after speaker and endorses companies like Medco, a health benefits corporation, even though his best days in the pool were back in 1972.
"Marketing potential is such a tough question," Morgenstein wrote in an e-mail from Beijing. "It's defined by whether he is thought of by performance or stature/story. If America believes his struggle to achieve eight golds has a broader good than just victories, he will earn millions of dollars forever."
The business decisions Phelps makes over the next two years -- if not the next two weeks -- will be critical. Appearances and endorsement possibilities will be flying from every direction, and he and his longtime agent, Peter Carlisle of Octagon, will have to be careful about their decisions.
Carlisle told The Wall Street Journal on Monday that he expects Phelps' current annual earnings to at least double.
"What is the value of eight golds in Beijing before a prime-time audience in the U.S?" Carlisle told the newspaper. "I'd say $100 million over the course of his lifetime."
Speedo has already paid him a $1 million bonus for breaking Spitz's record. Just as records can be broken in the pool, so can contracts on land. According to The Wall Street Journal on Monday, Phelps' worth to Nike could be $40 million.
Speedo has long been considered the swimming company, and its LZR Racer suits were worn by the dominant swimmers in the Games. Twenty-four world records were broken by swimmers sporting Speedos in Beijing.
Phelps also will be the spokesman for the beverage PureSport, which is about to launch its first national ad campaign with the swimmer. Phelps and the rest of the men's and women's U.S. swim teams are receiving free pizza and pasta for a year from Pizza Hut. Another one of his sponsors, Kellogg Co., is also looking into possible deals. Plus, he's hearing from potential consumers online -- reportedly 795,000 people have signed up as fans of Phelps on Facebook.
The magic of Olympic staying power is tricky. What can seem so important today might not down the road. Mary Lou Retton captured gold in 1984 and remains a household name. Carly Patterson also struck gold in women's gymnastics four years ago, but she hasn't made the same impact. Who knows how long-term America's memories of newly crowned gymnastics champion Nastia Liukin will be?
Some companies were savvy enough to figure out Phelps would be a worthwhile investment years ago. Visa and PowerBar, for instance, have backed him since 2002. PowerBar launched a TV ad campaign featuring Phelps back in March. Visa created two special-edition national TV ads to celebrate Phelps' achievements in Beijing.
"Michael is leaving Beijing as a global sports icon," said Michael Lynch, head of Visa's global sponsorship management. "We look forward to new opportunities post-Beijing that will reinforce our relationship with him on a global stage."
Phelps plans to move back to his hometown in Baltimore following these Games in Beijing. He has lived and trained at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor for four years, following the 2004 Games in Athens, where he collected six golds and two bronze. Baltimore is home and Phelps seems more than ready to return, but it is also a somewhat provincial city.
Cal Ripken Jr., for one, can attest to that. But Ripken and his handlers have made certain that he has made himself a fixture in the community.
.
.
.
continued
Entire article: ESPN - Agent: Phelps could earn $100 million over lifetime - Olympics
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That looks a lot like the poster of Mark Spitz that was on a lot of bedroom walls in the 70s. Not on my wall, but on a lot of my friends' walls.
And I mean my female friends' walls, of course. They liked the porn 'stache.
And I mean my female friends' walls, of course. They liked the porn 'stache.
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BUCKYLE
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Braylon Edwards V Michael Phelps...
Braylon Edwards is a fantastic wide receiver. A master gambler, he probably is not. Before the Olympics, as Braylon and Phelps were hanging out somewhere talking about all things Michigan (take that, Miami of Ohio!), they struck up a bet. Braylon wagered that he'd score twice as many touchdowns as Michael Phelps would win gold medals (gracias, FanHouse).
Phelps, as you may have heard, won eight.
Braylon Edwards is a fantastic wide receiver. A master gambler, he probably is not. Before the Olympics, as Braylon and Phelps were hanging out somewhere talking about all things Michigan (take that, Miami of Ohio!), they struck up a bet. Braylon wagered that he'd score twice as many touchdowns as Michael Phelps would win gold medals (gracias, FanHouse).
Phelps, as you may have heard, won eight.
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OCBucksFan
I won a math debate
What's the prize for winning? Some toothless tsun cheerleader with the same diet as phelps?
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BLPCB
2010 Rose Bowl MVP
^My god, I read about Phelps' diet, I almost barfed. That's like the worst diet I have ever heard of. I was a swimmer in high school and I would eat 6,000 calories a day to keep up my energy for races and practices, but I didn't eat that much garbage. Heck, I ate very little trash. My swim coach (went to Ohio State BTW) got mad at people eating trash. One day, he was going to a pizza place to pick up a pizza, and he saw someone from the team there. He called him out in front of the team in practice
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BLPCB
2010 Rose Bowl MVP
Yeah, well I don't think any nutritionist would recommend 3 large white bread fried egg sandwiches loaded with mayo, cheese, fried onions, lettuce, and tomato, a 5-egg omelet, 3 slices of French Toast, 3 chocolate chip pancakes, grits, coffee, energy drinks, 2 pounds of bleached pasta, an entire pizza, and 2 ham and cheese sandwiches loaded with mayo on white bread. He probably does have a very fast metabolism, I did when I was swimming, but I ate waaaaaaaaaaay better than that, while still eating stuff I liked, getting the protein I needed for the muscles, the carbs for energy, the vitamins and minerals for overall and competition health, and small amounts of fatOneshot;1262943; said:
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I was just fuckin' around. I was saying that I'd trust Phelpsie's judgment over a swim coach other than his.