Written by: Beck
What do you know, I can access Blogger again.
Remember field day back in elementary school? They'd hand out a "sportsmanship award" to the most inept, unathletic students as a sort of consolation prize for being otherwise uncoordinated or inept.
But there really is such a thing as good sportsmanship, and
this man exemplifies it.
Michael Phelps is done for the Olympics. Shortly after winning his fifth gold medal and seventh overall, Phelps told U.S. men's coach Eddie Reese that he wanted to give up his spot on the butterfly leg of the 400-meter medley relay team to Ian Crocker.
Phelps, who already swam in the morning preliminaries on the medley relay, earned a right to swim the final by beating Crocker in the 100 fly Friday night by a minuscule four-hundredths of a second. But Phelps said he would cede his coveted spot in the final to Crocker.
"We came into this meet as a team and we're going to leave it as a team," Phelps said. "It's the right thing to do."
I never really thought of swimming as a team sport, but I guess, in a way, it is.
(Hat tip:
INDC Journal)