Did Michael Phelps Really Win That 7th Gold,
Or Was This a Conspiracy of Olympic Proportions?

• Milorad Cavic beats everybody, including Michael Phelps head-to-head (Qualifying session) at the 2008 Beijing Olympics (Source: Yahoo Olympics)

• Milorad Cavic beats everybody, including Michael Phelps (Semifinal session) at the 2008 Beijing Olympics (Source: Yahoo Olympics)

• Milorad Cavic beats everybody, including* Michael Phelps (Medals session) at the 2008 Beijing Olympics (Source: NBC)

• Photo finish freeze frame at the finals session speaks volumes. (Photo: Heinz Kluetmeier/SI)

• Jay Mariotti: "Let's make something clear: It wouldn't have been good for sport, swimming or anyone but Cavic had Phelps lost. Losing his final individual race would have been one of the great letdowns in sports history." (Source: Chicago Sun-Times, August 16)

• Omega is the official sponsor of Michael Phelps since 2004. (Source: OmegaWatches.com)

• Michael Phelps in an Omega sponsored lane at the finish line next to MiloradCavic. (Source: Michael Kappeler/AFP/Getty Images, August 16)

• NY Times: "The most visible athlete at these Games is getting a paycheck from the same company whose equipment decides the outcome of Phelps’s events." (Source: NY Times, August 20)

• Omega also has a contract with NBC. (Source: Yahoo Sports, July 10)

• The greatest whatever athlete of all-time can't bear to look the truth in the eyes. (Source: unknown)

• "To the naked eye it appeared to be either a dead heat or a Cavic victory." (Source: San Jose Mercury News, August 16)

• "Replays of Phelps's finish compared with Cavic's appeared to show Cavic reached the wall ahead of his American rival." (Source: Globe and Mail, August 16)

• "To the naked eye, Phelps surely lost." (Source: AOL Sports, August 16)

• FINA official cheers for Phelps and promises: "(Phelps) would have won the race no matter what." ("No matter what"!? I mean, WHAT THE HECK IS THAT SUPPOSED TO MEAN???)(Source: San Francisco Chronicle, August 16)

• FINA official swimming rules for Butterfly races state the requirement of both hands simultaneously touching the pad (Source: FINA.org, August 16)

• As per those same FINA rules, Phelps' hands are clearly NOT touching the pad simultaneously. (Source: Michael Kappeler/AFP/Getty Images, August 16)

• FINA official refuses to release the conclusive evidence of Phelps' win, and states the following: "We are not going to distribute footage. We are not doing these kinds of things. Everything is good." (Source: NY Times, August 16)

• A sports ethicist claims that FINA refusal to release the conclusive evidence of Phelps' win is "very damaging" to Phelps, Omega, USA. (Source: NY Times, August 20)

• FINA Vice President, Dale Neuburger appointed as the new Director of sports marketing consultancy TSE Consulting. (Source: InsideIndianaBusiness.com, April 18, 2006)

• FINA Vice President, Dale Neuburger: "I've worked with his (Phelps') agent, Peter Carlisle...on numerous occasions. We're working right now in trying to help Michael have a post-Olympic tour. I've known him, his family." (Source: Indianapolis Star, August 17)

• Global head of sponsorship management for VISA Inc.: "The objective of Phelps' sponsors is to expand Michael's presence in other markets." (Source: Washington Post, August 18)

• Michael Phelps' agent Peter Carlisle: "If he gets to seven or eight... you're talking about hundreds of millions". (Source: CNBC.com, August 12, 2008)

• Michael Phelps' agent Peter Carlisle: "We're going to really explore the merchandising side of the business globally, by sort of taking his name and image alone at times, putting them on merchandise, shirts, things of that nature, posters, and there has already been a lot of demand for that sort of thing.". (Source: CNBC.com, August 19, 2008

• Michael Phelps' mother Debbie lines up for her slice of the action by signing endorsement deal with Johnson & Johnson. (Source: CNBC.com, August 19, 2008)
  
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