Phelps Pot Photo/Future

Earlier this week, a photo of super-star Michael Phelps smoking marijuana was released by News Of The World. The party the Phelps was attending is assumed to date back to before the 2008 Olympics. Phelps' endorsements are in Jeopardy but endorsers such as Speedo have announced that they do believe he made a unintelligent decision but they will continue to keep Phelps in their arsenal. This topic has traveled around the world in a matter of days. This has become such a large issue due to the fact that Phelps became the most well known athlete in the Olympics winning eight gold medals this past year and six gold and two bronze in Athens Greece four years ago. This superstar has stated an apology letter consisting of him admitting that it is him in the picture and that it is marijuana he is smoking. I do believe that Phelps is an amazing athlete but this is an idiotic choice that he made but i do wish to see him perform well in the London 2012 Olympics. Hopefully the publicity on this photo will fade and help Phelps move past his teenage decisions. I know that he will not be competing for eight gold medals but he will still be in a few races. Phelps needs to now start training and getting back in the pool to get in shape. I will continue to be a fan of him but it is a shame that athletes feel the need to do drugs. Drug Testing has been a topic of discussion in the news stating that Olympians should be tested in the future. Hopefully other athletes that do participate in smoking or doing drugs will stop due to the chance of being photographed like Phelps and having large amounts of publicity on their mistakes.