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World Aquatics Championships

BY Fast Company CalendarSat Jul 18, 2009 at 1:00 AM

michael phelpsNearly 3,000 athletes from 200 nations will compete at this year's swimming and diving championships. But extraordinary attention will go to one: Michael Phelps. In his first major meet since the bong-picture scandal that cost him a lucrative endorsement deal with Kellogg's, he'll race for redemption. Other celebs have rebounded from bigger infractions. Kate Moss, for example, cleaned up and partnered with Topshop after alleged cocaine use ruined her H&M deal. We think Phelps can follow suit, as long as he sticks to smoking the competition. -- DM

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July 18, 2009 at 11:55am by Freddy Nager

If anything, Phelps has proven that smoking pot isn't the heinous crime it used to be. Indeed, if a man who needs powerful lungs for a living can handle it, then it's also probably not the hazardous pastime as depicted. (I wouldn't know -- I didn't inhale.) The underlying hypocrisy in all this is that, if Phelps had been photographed enjoying some shots of Jack Daniels, no one would have cared, although some would argue that hard liquor is just as harmful as marijuana. In ten years, we may look upon this as the last, um, gasp of the anti-pot crusade.

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