Eight Gold Medals, Seven World Records And You Can’t Ring A Stupid Bell?
Come on, “golden boy”:
The traders at the New York Stock Exchange went berserk on Tuesday over the hottest commodity at the Beijing Olympics, circling Michael Phelps like sharks.
There was barely room to breathe on the floor as people pushed to get close to Phelps, who won a record eight gold medals and set seven world records.
Phelps rang the opening bell, or at least that was the original plan. On the platform alongside his fellow United States Olympic swimming champions Ryan Lochte and Natalie Coughlin, Phelps was so tired that he was tottering, so Coughlin discreetly did the honors.
“Michael was just kind of jet-lagged,” Coughlin said.
On the floor, he was besieged by autograph seekers. One trader held up a magazine with Phelps on the cover for him to sign and said, “My wife wants to marry you.” When told that Phelps, who was in the middle of a television interview, would not be signing anything more, the trader said, indignantly, “Is his hand broken?”
Or was that Las Vegas trip a little draining?
Posted: September 10th, 2008 | Filed under: Bah! Humbug!, Celebrity