The UK News of the World published this obnoxious picture of a guy that is alledgedly eight time Olympic Gold Medal winner Michael Phelps today.

The picture was taken last November while Michael was at the University of South Carolina Columbia to visit a girl he had been seeing, and was just blowing off some steam at a run-of-the-mill college party. The NotW says that Mike was acting like big man on campus/superstar and that he looked quite comfortable tokin’ on that pipe.

I say so what if he wants to get his smoke on..he’s a grown man who’s athletic capabilities dwarf those of the people who broke this story, but the bad news is there is some ‘drug rule’ that athletes can’t compete in the Olympics if they’ve been known to use drugs in the proceeding four years. So this could be the end of the wonder boys career.

And after sporting chiefs announced laws which mean four-year bans for drug-taking, Phelps’ dreams of adding to his overall 14 gold medal tally at the 2012 games in London could already be OVER.

Michael Phelps and his agent buck Olympic tradition and have made a deal for the record setting swimmer to appear on boxes of Kellogg’s Frosted Flakes, instead of Wheaties. This decision has every nutritionist in America up in arms about the message this sends to kids. I can just hear some whiny 8 year-old telling asking his mom why he can’t eat the big bowl of sugar for breakfast if Olympics athletes can.

“I would not consider Frosted Flakes the food of an Olympian. I would rather see him promoting Fiber One. I would rather see him promoting oatmeal. I would even rather see him promoting Cherrio’s.” – Nutritionist Rebecca Soloman of Mount Sinai Medical Center.

I’d rather see him promoting oatmeal too, but Quaker doesn’t pay as much as Kellogg’s. Of course at the end of the day it’s the parents responsibility to make sure their kids are eating right, but seeing that perfect Olympic body on the box of something that has as much sugar as a candy bar sure isn’t going to help teach our kids about good nutrition.

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Michael Phelps, aka the Beijing Bad-Ass, is of course going to be on the cover of Sports Illustrated as soon as they can get the presses rolling. I wonder who’s idea it was to copy Michael’s childhood hero, Mark Spitz 1972 cover? Was Phelps ever born then? Either way I’m glad they did as it the new cover made me search for the old cover and led us to some vintage 1972 mustached Magnum sexiness.

Micheal Phelps says he’s going to buy a house and some boy toys with the $100 million he is expected to earn in endorsement deals. Let’s do the math; 8 Olympic gold medals + lifetime of training = $100 Mil.

Note to the dudes that run SI; You put every hot model you can find in a tiny bikini once a year, you couldn’t have put Michael Phelps into an American flag Speedo for your female readers?