Michael Phelps, the American athlete who won 8 olympic gold medals, apologizes for smoking marijuana. The photo of Phelps inhaling marijuana from a bong leaked to the public and brought his endorsement deals to a halt.
Phelps is endorsing million dollar campaigns and some of his sponsors are reviewing their deals and looking into the situation. Phelps is seen as a role model to many kids, and these leaked photos of him can hurt the deals.
One of his sponsors, Speedo said that although they do not condone Phelps’ actions, they accepted his apology. The company said they will support Phelps as he is part of the Speedo family.
In my opinion… Phelps is young, he experimented, and he learned a great lesson out of it. Phelps took full responsibility of his actions; his regret and sincerity to pick himself up again makes him more human and more relatable to his fans (which is a great message that sponsors should want to publicize).
2 comments:
So the guy is human. Not everyone is perfect, not even if you've won 14 Olympic gold medals. I think the role models and heroes children and teens should look up to are their parents in the first place, that way we we don't have to pay attention to what Michael Phelps, A-Rod, or Kobe Bryant are doing every single waking minute of their personal lives. But you can blame the media for that, and perhaps our society as a whole for feeding into it. As for all those endorsements...do we really need any more commercials?
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