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Description:Demythologizing Michael Phelps is the first comprehensive evaluation of the rise and fall of the most decorated Olympian in history. With uncontroversial facts, it reveals the confluence of forces that created a perception of Michael Phelps’s spectacular greatness. Closer scrutiny reveals a troubled, damaged, needy person who never exhibited true sportsmanship.Understanding Phelps’s obsessions and shortcomings requires plumbing deep into his life. Despite declaring a full debt to his mother, Debbie, it was the absence of his father, Fred, who provided his son with “a perfect body for swimming,” that continued to drive Michael Phelps. Needing a father figure, coach Bob Bowman stepped in. The result was a codependence that bonded coach and swimmer into a single identity that neither could ever escape.All material is factual and verifiable. More than any of Kitty Kelley’s biographies, this book will sell because it reveals what most Phelps’s fans have chosen to ignore, a darker, nastier, sneakier, hypocritical aspect that destroys his potential as a role model.Largely unappreciated, Phelps’s opportunity to succeed in his chosen events was amplified by format and scheduling changes made in 2004 and 2008, which taken together produced a perfect opportunity for success that was unavailable to Mark Spitz in 1972: the largely unappreciated “downhill swim.”.Yet the book has a panoramic perspective beyond just the putative merits of Phelps vs. Spitz, reaching back to the 1932 Los Angeles games, which debuted the youngest American male swimmer ever, Ralph Drew Flanagan, at 13. Flanagan could not have equaled Phelps’s individual achievement because none of the individual events that Phelps won in 2008 was swum in the 1932 games. In similar fashion, detailed analyses dismantle the veneer of the Phelps myth using an even-handed analysis that compares only things that are alike enough in important respects to be fairly compared.Demythologizing Michael Phelps is a thoughtful book not only about Michael Phelps, but about the exceptional latitudes that fans give their chosen heroes. It also reveals how powerfully the seduction of fame pushes champions to ignore fairness and sportsmanship.For contrast, counterpoint and balance, a wealth of accomplished role models are presented in this book. Significantly, they needed no special media or judging treatment to win their Olympic golds. Unlike Phelps, they often had tough handicaps to abusive childhoods, pre-race appendectomies, asthma, diabetes, physical deformity, color discrimination and even cancer.To anyone yearning for fairness, this book will be as a real eye opener. Every fact is verifiable by official times or photo finish camera shots. After reading it, a person will never see or read sports coverage the same way again. Demythologizing Michael Phelps simply tells the story concealed by the parties who most benefitted by creating the mythic image of a champion who was manufactured.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Demythologizing Michael Phelps. To get started finding Demythologizing Michael Phelps, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Demythologizing Michael Phelps is the first comprehensive evaluation of the rise and fall of the most decorated Olympian in history. With uncontroversial facts, it reveals the confluence of forces that created a perception of Michael Phelps’s spectacular greatness. Closer scrutiny reveals a troubled, damaged, needy person who never exhibited true sportsmanship.Understanding Phelps’s obsessions and shortcomings requires plumbing deep into his life. Despite declaring a full debt to his mother, Debbie, it was the absence of his father, Fred, who provided his son with “a perfect body for swimming,” that continued to drive Michael Phelps. Needing a father figure, coach Bob Bowman stepped in. The result was a codependence that bonded coach and swimmer into a single identity that neither could ever escape.All material is factual and verifiable. More than any of Kitty Kelley’s biographies, this book will sell because it reveals what most Phelps’s fans have chosen to ignore, a darker, nastier, sneakier, hypocritical aspect that destroys his potential as a role model.Largely unappreciated, Phelps’s opportunity to succeed in his chosen events was amplified by format and scheduling changes made in 2004 and 2008, which taken together produced a perfect opportunity for success that was unavailable to Mark Spitz in 1972: the largely unappreciated “downhill swim.”.Yet the book has a panoramic perspective beyond just the putative merits of Phelps vs. Spitz, reaching back to the 1932 Los Angeles games, which debuted the youngest American male swimmer ever, Ralph Drew Flanagan, at 13. Flanagan could not have equaled Phelps’s individual achievement because none of the individual events that Phelps won in 2008 was swum in the 1932 games. In similar fashion, detailed analyses dismantle the veneer of the Phelps myth using an even-handed analysis that compares only things that are alike enough in important respects to be fairly compared.Demythologizing Michael Phelps is a thoughtful book not only about Michael Phelps, but about the exceptional latitudes that fans give their chosen heroes. It also reveals how powerfully the seduction of fame pushes champions to ignore fairness and sportsmanship.For contrast, counterpoint and balance, a wealth of accomplished role models are presented in this book. Significantly, they needed no special media or judging treatment to win their Olympic golds. Unlike Phelps, they often had tough handicaps to abusive childhoods, pre-race appendectomies, asthma, diabetes, physical deformity, color discrimination and even cancer.To anyone yearning for fairness, this book will be as a real eye opener. Every fact is verifiable by official times or photo finish camera shots. After reading it, a person will never see or read sports coverage the same way again. Demythologizing Michael Phelps simply tells the story concealed by the parties who most benefitted by creating the mythic image of a champion who was manufactured.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Demythologizing Michael Phelps. To get started finding Demythologizing Michael Phelps, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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