The Michael Phelps saga is yet another example of our addiction to feigned outrage.
By David Sirota Feb 16, 2009
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Michael Phelps lost a major race for the first time in four years. Was his opponent's suit really to blame?
By Vincent Rossmeier
July 29, 2009
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The American phenom has been annoyingly omnipresent. That's too bad, because there are other things happening, and because he's not annoying.
By King Kaufman
August 14, 2008
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Watching my kid in the water, I have to ask myself, what do I love as much?
By Garrison Keillor
June 4, 2008
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My husband's cousin dives in without asking.
By Cary Tennis
March 25, 2008
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The swimmer is gaining on the all-time gold-medal record. But he's really excited about a football jersey.
By King Kaufman
August 11, 2008
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Olympic swimmer Amanda Beard plans to pose naked for Playboy.
By Tracy Clark-Flory
May 16, 2007
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Olympics: And so it ends. Now we begin filing the memories: Let's see, Phelps, hoops, drugs, two Hamms, empty seats and a nutcase at the marathon. Plus: Dee-fense!
August 30, 2004
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Olympics: Fast-forward. No, faster! The gymnastics exhibition is on! Plus: Don't mess with the insane judging, please.
August 25, 2004
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Love and molecules converge in a hot Thai swim one evening.
By Melinda Misuraca
April 15, 2000
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When you're a girl, a grown man's attention can make a woman out of you.
By Maurine Shores
August 18, 1999
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There's not much room to commune with your own nudity, or anyone else's, in a swimming-pool locker room full of wary onlookers.
By Jennifer New
July 2, 1999
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Is your gym a den of inequity?
By Courtney Weaver
July 1, 1998
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A granddaughter reflects on the pain of getting old and missing the grandmother who didn't.
By Grayson Hurst Daughters
January 29, 1998
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A December trip to Japan rekindles Gina Arnold's life-shaping Olympic obsessions.
By Gina Arnold
January 19, 1998
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In this first of an occasional series of dispatches by an expatriate mom, the author belly-flops into a cultural gulf at her Parisian swimming pool.
By Debra S. Ollivier
September 5, 1997
America's narcotic of choice
Phelps, Phelps, Phelps
Everybody in the pool!
Would you please get out of my swimming pool!
Like my breast stroke? What about my breasts?
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