Subway Still On Track With Michael Phelps
February 7th, 2009
Despite reports to the contrary, fast food chain Subway is standing by Michael Phelps saying, ”Like most Americans, we accept his apology.”
Gossip sites Gawker and Perez Hilton posted stories on Friday (February 6) announcing Subway had dumped the Olympic champ following the photo leak of Phelps smoking from a bong.
“Like most Americans, and like Michael Phelps himself, we were disappointed in his behavior,” Megan Driscoll said on behalf of the company. “Also like most Americans, we accept his apology. Moving forward, he remains in our plans.”
Although most of his sponsors are sticking by him, Phelps won’t be able to compete for three months after US swimming officials implemented a ban and withdrew financial support of the multiple gold medal winner.
“This is not a situation where any anti-doping rule was violated,” USA Swimming said in a statement. ”But we decided to send a strong message to Michael because he disappointed so many people, particularly the hundreds of thousands of USA Swimming member kids who look up to him as a role model and a hero.
“Michael has voluntarily accepted this reprimand and has committed to earn back our trust.”
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February 8th, 2009 at 9:40 am
Michael Phelps is an American Hero. He stood tall and made America proud at the Beijing Olympics. This is how America treats its heroes, we forget all of the hard work Michael Phelps did to achieve his task, we forget the pride we felt with the each gold medal, we forget how Phelps helped America to be competitive, we forget all of those things and hang a man for smoking a glass pipe at a college party. It is time that we as a country stand up for the rights of the individual, it’s time we stand together with our neighbors and take collective control of our destinies. Write a congressman or a senator any of them; Imagine the weight of millions of emails calling for a change in policy. In this moment in America anything is possible just Google the email address of your representative and send him or her short email. It will take 10 minutes but then you have taken responsibility for change. A senator considers each email as representative of 2 thousand voters.