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Michael Phelps Has to Watch for Pranks Around the US Swim Team

Elie Seckbach, the Embedded Correspondent, brings his exclusive video reporting to FanHouse. Check back regularly for more videos.

The great white shark from Baltimore, Michael Phelps, collects gold medals -- eight at the most recent Olympics, five at the world championships. In fact, he has just become the first swimmer in history to complete 100M butterfly in under 50 seconds (49.82 seconds). You would think that nothing could rattle him, but, as you'll hear from Cullen Jones and Garrett Weber-Gale, when Phelps is around his US Swim team he does not sleep well.

Check out the video after the jump.

Michael Phelps Closes World Championships With 5th Gold Medal

ROME (AP) -- Michael Phelps had every reason to be satisfied after the Beijing Olympics. Yet he kept insisting there was more to do in the pool.

Clearly.

Even coming off his longest layoff and the embarrassment of being photographed inhaling from a marijuana pipe, Phelps turned in another remarkable performance over eight days at the Foro Italico. He completed it Sunday night by helping the U.S. 400-meter medley relay team set the 43rd world record of the fastest meet in history.

U.S. Olympians: Michael Phelps, Manny Ramirez Got Off Easy

Elie Seckbach, the Embedded Correspondent, brings his exclusive video reporting to FanHouse. Check back regularly for more videos.

Track and field star James Carter, a member of two U.S. Olympic teams, has very strong opinions about pro athletes who get busted for substance abuse or have their pictures taken with bongs.

In this video we talk to Carter about his thoughts on the subject. We also hear from track legend Maurice Greene, who tells us what he thinks about Manny Ramirez, while Olympic gold medal winner Dee Dee Trotter tells us who her idol is and why baseball will never change its policy when it comes to substance abuse.

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Props to Persevering Michael Phelps

So, how serious was Michael Phelps about quitting the sport that made him famous -- and, um, infamous? Serious as a sheet of paper, a line dividing the page in half and headings with "pros" on one side and "cons" on the other. It was mid-March, not long after a photo surfaced of the American treasure and most decorated Olympian sucking on a bong, and Phelps was tired of celebrity, scandal and a world he no longer trusted beyond chlorine and water.

Michael Phelps Using Golf as a Getaway

They say it's a good walk spoiled, but for a certain group of uber-famous people, golf can be a getaway; a place where a nice stroll is happily interrupted by the occasional short iron.

Olympic hero turned media stepchild Michael Phelps admitted in a recent New York Times article that he has taken a liking to golf, admitting that the game is a nice place to get away. Phelps recently teed it up with some buddies and shot a respectable 115.

Pacquiao a True Champion

It is virtually impossible to find a superstar athlete these days for whom some disdain can't be mustered. Michael Phelps gets busted. LeBron James gets the benefit of the NBA's preferential refereeing. The Williams Sisters get surly. Rafael Nadal showed some audacity by suggesting tennis adjust its schedule to his liking. And Derek Jeter is a Yankee.

But there is Manny Pacquiao, all 5 feet, 6 inches and 140 pounds of him. What is there about him not to like?

Gold Medalist Jason Lezak May Quit Swimming If He Can't Find a Sponsor

Jason LezakMichael Phelps was America's Olympic hero last summer, but he couldn't have won his eight gold medals without the help of his relay partner Jason Lezak, who caught France's world record holder Alain Bernard from behind to win the 4-by-100 freestyle relay.

But while Phelps has become an international superstar, made millions of dollars and, more recently, become the subject of some incriminating photos, Lezak has been largely forgotten.

Stephanie Rice Wants You to Stop Calling Her a Party Girl

Michael Phelps isn't the only Olympian to be pinned as a partier after having success at the Beijing Olympics. Stephanie Rice, three-time 2008 gold medalist in the 200-meter, 400-meter and 4 x 200 relay, has been labeled a party girl in her home country of Australia and is trying to shake the image, saying she has avoided knocking back shots since the new year.

Phelps 'Hiding Out' in Strip Clubs?

If your job was to count the good decisions Michael Phelps has made since he was wearing that American flag swimming cap on his head in Beijing, your days have probably been fairly uneventful.

Phelps dated this girl, then ripped the Bong Hit Heard 'Round The World (after losing money playing beer pong) and now is trying his hardest to avoid any trouble. So where is the best place for Phelps to avoid trouble? Yes, Pacman, "strip clubs" would be the correct answer.

Michael Phelps Apologizes to China



The bong hit heard 'round the world continues to have far-reaching repercussions, as Michael Phelps has recorded the above video to the "Chinese friends" who saw him win eight Olympic gold medals in Beijing last summer.

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