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This Just In: Olympians Play Video Games

Posted by Cole Stryker

 


Did you guys hear? Michael Phelps is a gamer.

He loves hip-hop music, video games and watches DVDs endlessly while relaxing between races.

He's also kind of a jerk about it.

One week, he played so much Tiger Woods PGA Tour Golf on his Nintendo Wii, he came to practice with a sore shoulder, and Bowman said if that ever happened again he was taking the video game console away. Video games are one of his favorite escapes, and if he wants to play them, no one is going to stop him. This is especially true of girlfriends or potential girlfriends. "If I want to play video games, I'm playing video games," he says.

Amanda Beard is a gamer, and she's totally jazzed about being on the cover of that new Olympics video game.

To be with these other athletes who are on the cover with me, now I can cheer and watch them at the Olympics and then go home and play the video game...I played the old Nintendo Olympics game with the Power Pad, where you started out as the turtle and worked your way up to the cheetah.

 Oh snap! I remember that. Reese Hoffa is just like us too, bro! He likes Madden!

Like every guy, it's a major part of my life, especially when you travel overseas.

 Tyson Gay had this to say:

Olympic track athletes spend a lot of free time trying to be the best in their favorite video games. So much so, our fingers sometimes get more tired then our legs do in actual races...Beijing 2008' gives kids a chance to experience the fun of being in the Olympics when they are sitting right in their own home.

Awww! You are such a sweetheart. 

Yao Ming plays video games. Remember him from those zany commercials?

Giants Quarterback Aaron Ross "routinely beats" Sanya Richardson, his olympian bride-to-be...at VIDEO GAMES!

And speed demon Usain Bolt "only wants to play video games" after a run.  

...

WHO. CARES.

People play video games. Normal people. When is the MSM going to wake up to this reality? No one is going to remember any of these people in a few months. The olympics suck. I liked video games better when this guy was the poster child. 


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Roto13 said:

I care because I want to become a great swimmer by playing Disgaea.

August 18, 2008 7:56 PM

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