Michael Phelps’ interview with Joe Buck on Undeniable, the announcer’s DirecTV interview show, airs Wednesday and included among the obvious discussions about Olympic memories, gold medals, Phelps’ famous mother and, more soberly, the difficulties of rehab, is an interesting discussion about what was perhaps the biggest Michael Phelps scandal of them all: That time a British tabloid posted a picture of the swimming great holding a bong up to his mouth.
As a refresher, in 2009 a British tabloid printed a picture of Phelps holding a bong, appearing to be smoking marijuana, at the University of South Carolina in November of 2008, three months after his triumphant, historic eight-gold medal performance in Beijing.