@BunsenBurner Unless you know something the media don’t know, he’s a father but not a husband.
My bad, jonri. I thought I read it somewhere. Anyway, being a husband does not take much work… being a dad does. Intparent, I hope that the little one will fully fill that void.
I hope he will make a nice transition into fatherhood. It might be difficult. It has been all about him and his glory for the past how many years? He might be so used to be in the spotlight. Being parent means you give that spotlight to somebody else. Of course you should not give up your own life, but the parenthood is more like a supporting role.
A friend of ours swam in the trials. He was second in the prelims, second in the semis and barely missed second by .03 seconds. Qualified for USA relay team. NBC announcers actually announced… “And the no name made it”
“being a husband does not take much work”
Depends how good a job you want to do. 
I’m encouraged by the recent interviews with him. He seems happy and ready to settle down. Of course, time will tell.
Am I the only one who’s really really tired of Michael Phelps? >>>>>>
I personally think he should have retired. JMO.
I’m never tired of him in the pool. I’ve been tired of him in interviews from the beginning. Let’s just say not every athlete is Muhammad Ali in the words department.
I have a sense from reading articles that he has really struggled his whole life outside the pool – it gives him a focus that he can’t find elsewhere. I think he has big time ADHD. He keeps coming back to swimming because it is the one thing that he does well and his disability doesn’t hinder him. But he has to be near the end of the road on that.
And Team USA has been officially announced!
https://swimswam.com/2016-u-s-olympic-swimming-team-complete-roster/
I completely agree with Hanna on the “words department”. 
(Here is an example of a classy interview - it took place just after him losing the last chance to make the team:
https://swimswam.com/cullen-jones-gives-honest-interview-3rd-place-finish-video/ )
Wow, so not a lot of swimmers entered in loads of events.
That was a classy and heartfelt interview, @BunsenBurner – It really stings when you’re exactly one place off of making the team.
Anybody here watching the track trials?
The finals of the women’s 800 m was loaded with drama and emotion yesterday when their was one of those accidental collision incidents on the last turn that knocked out two of the favorites, Alysia Montano and Brenda Martinez, and knocked two more runners off stride, possibly costing at least one of them a place on the team… It was nobody’s fault in the sense that no one committed a foul. Tripping is just one of the perils of running at high speed in crowded heavy traffic. It was heart-rending to see/hear the anguish of Montano as she saw her Olympic dreams come crashing down.
I am!! I hated the falls in the 800, but was so happy that Kate Grace won. I’m an Ambassador runner for her sponsor, Oiselle.
The elite runner forums ( who know everything…(sarcasm) ) were assigning full blame to Montano. I couldn’t really tell.
Here’s the analysis from Craig Virgin- who I trust.
“I watched replays several times on the large screen at the Wild Duck Café post-meet party and I am of the opinion that Brenda survived the first clip from behind but that the 2nd clip… (by Alysia) actually caught and stuck into poor Brenda’s shoe’s heel counter and pulled it partially down off her heel… which is what tripped up Alysia and caused her to do a total somersault. It threw Brenda way out to the 3rd lane and she started to then hobble due to the shoe that was partially off her one heel and never could regain sprinting form again to make up any ground in the final 100 meters. Watch the video replay yourself and let me know what you think…
I believe that the officials ruled it as “incidental” (ie accidental). contact and no one was DQed but the big screen replays left me with the impression that Montano was the actual accidental perpetrator here while Martinez was the real victim. It would be my humble opinion that Martinez was moving forward to a qualifying Top 3 spot while Montano was fading to a 4th-7th place finishing position if the contact had not happened. Had it been a semi-final then an appeal could have been lodged for placement into the final… maybe for both women…but since it was the actual final…well, everyone was just plain out of luck!
Martinez will have another shot in the 1500 and I wish her well.”
I know it’s emotionally devastating to fall (get tripped) like that, but I can do without the histrionics.
If you were looking for track and field coverage (like I was), today is a “rest day”.
http://www.usatf.org/Events—Calendar/2016/U-S–Olympic-Team-Trials—Track—Field/schedule.aspx
Craig Virgin’s analysis is pretty much the way I saw it. And it’s true that Brenda Martinez will have another shot at an Olympic berth in 1500m, but the 800m was her better event.
Ironically, one of the competitors Martinez will face in the 1500m is the queen of the big race falls, Morgan Uceny. Uceny has fallen three times in major championship races: the 2011 World Champs finals - when she was ranked #1 in the world and was favored to win the gold, the 2012 Olympic finals – when she was a strong contender for gold, and the US National champs finals in 2014. None of which were her fault, unless you consider running in traffic instead of leading to be a tactical mistake worthy of assigning blame.
So I hope good things happen to Morgan Uceny, but in the past couple of years she hasn’t been the dominant runner she once was. The falls seem to have robbed her of her prior confidence and ability to win.
When my son was doing community service for IB International HS here, he worked at the art museum on the UO campus for events. One of them was after one of the big track meets (The Prefontaine Classic).
He said: “I met Ashton Eaton!.. [pause]… Who’s Ashton Eaton?”
Argh
We met a cousin of Michael Phelp’s - he was our tour guide at the Air and Space Museum in DC. He said he didn’t know him well, though.
“being a husband does not take much work”
“Depends how good a job you want to do. :-)”
You mean we had a choice?