Demythologizing Michael Phelps eBook David L Hoof Panther Literary N' Publishing James Karlson
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Demythologizing Michael Phelps is the first comprehensive evaluation of the rise and fall of the most decorated Olympian in history. With uncontroversial facts, it reveals the confluence of forces that created a perception of Michael Phelps’s spectacular greatness. Closer scrutiny reveals a troubled, damaged, needy person who never exhibited true sportsmanship.
Understanding Phelps’s obsessions and shortcomings requires plumbing deep into his life. Despite declaring a full debt to his mother, Debbie, it was the absence of his father, Fred, who provided his son with “a perfect body for swimming,” that continued to drive Michael Phelps. Needing a father figure, coach Bob Bowman stepped in. The result was a codependence that bonded coach and swimmer into a single identity that neither could ever escape.
All material is factual and verifiable. More than any of Kitty Kelley’s biographies, this book will sell because it reveals what most Phelps’s fans have chosen to ignore, a darker, nastier, sneakier, hypocritical aspect that destroys his potential as a role model.
Largely unappreciated, Phelps’s opportunity to succeed in his chosen events was amplified by format and scheduling changes made in 2004 and 2008, which taken together produced a perfect opportunity for success that was unavailable to Mark Spitz in 1972 the largely unappreciated “downhill swim.”.
Yet the book has a panoramic perspective beyond just the putative merits of Phelps vs. Spitz, reaching back to the 1932 Los Angeles games, which debuted the youngest American male swimmer ever, Ralph Drew Flanagan, at 13. Flanagan could not have equaled Phelps’s individual achievement because none of the individual events that Phelps won in 2008 was swum in the 1932 games. In similar fashion, detailed analyses dismantle the veneer of the Phelps myth using an even-handed analysis that compares only things that are alike enough in important respects to be fairly compared.
Demythologizing Michael Phelps is a thoughtful book not only about Michael Phelps, but about the exceptional latitudes that fans give their chosen heroes. It also reveals how powerfully the seduction of fame pushes champions to ignore fairness and sportsmanship.
For contrast, counterpoint and balance, a wealth of accomplished role models are presented in this book. Significantly, they needed no special media or judging treatment to win their Olympic golds. Unlike Phelps, they often had tough handicaps to overcome abusive childhoods, pre-race appendectomies, asthma, diabetes, physical deformity, color discrimination and even cancer.
To anyone yearning for fairness, this book will be as a real eye opener. Every fact is verifiable by official times or photo finish camera shots. After reading it, a person will never see or read sports coverage the same way again. Demythologizing Michael Phelps simply tells the story concealed by the parties who most benefitted by creating the mythic image of a champion who was manufactured.
Demythologizing Michael Phelps eBook David L Hoof Panther Literary N' Publishing James Karlson
Where do I start...First off this book is extremely repetitive and devolves into just plain boring. While some of the points brought up by the author certainly seem reasonable, such as how many of the olympic swim events were intentionally spread out so as to provide Phelps the greatest chance of gold medal success. Other times the author excessively delves into the most ridiculous minutia as to how Michael won all his medals and why he is not the greatest swimmer of all time. This mind numbing and often twisted numerical analysis that is presented, along with the continual comparison to what Mark Spitz accomplished (who he insists was a better swimmer) make the writer appear to be just a vindictive Michael Phelps basher rather than providing any type of unbiased review.
While I agree MP certainly has his faults and often comes across as an arrogant spoiled brat that exhibits very little in the way of true sportsmanship to his fellow competitors, I still think he deserves better than this type of shallow tripe.
Bottom line, if you truly can't stand MP and feel he's nothing but a self centered jerk that does nothing but use his fellow teammates (by way of participating in swimming relays) to add to his medal count, then this is the book for you. If however you're looking for something a bit more objective and less along the lines of a continual character assassination, then I suggest you look elsewhere.
As a final note, for some reason when this book was converted to digital there are numerous pages where there is only limited text. Sometimes an entire page has only one short or incomplete sentence before you have to move on to the next page. I don't think anything is missing but it's just odd how it is broken up.
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Demythologizing Michael Phelps eBook David L Hoof Panther Literary N' Publishing James Karlson Reviews
A book that doesn't hold back but doesn't come on to strong, it is a very good read. Sportsmanship and good conduct is a common thing in the eye of the public until all the hype and the lies are stripped and the only thing open and bare to the naked eye is their soul. This book opens up in reality the pros and cons of this media-built Olympian. A beautiful read and easy read to the eyes. David Hoof has done it again.
Where do I start...
First off this book is extremely repetitive and devolves into just plain boring. While some of the points brought up by the author certainly seem reasonable, such as how many of the olympic swim events were intentionally spread out so as to provide Phelps the greatest chance of gold medal success. Other times the author excessively delves into the most ridiculous minutia as to how Michael won all his medals and why he is not the greatest swimmer of all time. This mind numbing and often twisted numerical analysis that is presented, along with the continual comparison to what Mark Spitz accomplished (who he insists was a better swimmer) make the writer appear to be just a vindictive Michael Phelps basher rather than providing any type of unbiased review.
While I agree MP certainly has his faults and often comes across as an arrogant spoiled brat that exhibits very little in the way of true sportsmanship to his fellow competitors, I still think he deserves better than this type of shallow tripe.
Bottom line, if you truly can't stand MP and feel he's nothing but a self centered jerk that does nothing but use his fellow teammates (by way of participating in swimming relays) to add to his medal count, then this is the book for you. If however you're looking for something a bit more objective and less along the lines of a continual character assassination, then I suggest you look elsewhere.
As a final note, for some reason when this book was converted to digital there are numerous pages where there is only limited text. Sometimes an entire page has only one short or incomplete sentence before you have to move on to the next page. I don't think anything is missing but it's just odd how it is broken up.
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