What should he do now?

what should he do now?
reality tv?
how can he make 10 million a year after what happened?

Porn.

this morning a talk radio guy was saying "he has to "own it" and joke around about being an idiot"....but to me, its obvious that the people of Brazil are so butthurt that he'd claim a crime when they are hypersensitive about that shit, that owning it/joking about it would only make them hate him more and maybe even harm him.

all he can really do is try to swim some more, but US Swimming is gonna fuck him over for a little while for sure.

His public image could be easily, albeit slowly, recovered by doing charity stuff in the United States, like teaching poor people how to swim in his free time, doing speeches in schools, acting as the 'athlete role model' from now on etc. He is a beautiful man, a very talented swimmer and a gold medallist, after all. I'm sure his PR people are telling him the same thing.

I hope he has saved some money though, because no one will sponsor him for a while.

He literally just lied.

That's all he's guilty of.

Pissing, breaking a door and lying...

He should change his last name to Clinton or Kennedy. The media would be up his ass forever.

But the lie was magnified by the fact he's a high profile athlete that was caught lying in another country, while representing the USA in the most important sports event.

It's not the same as if you or me were caught lying.

Yeah, i don't think he's ruined in the US, but brazilians will never forgive this.

the thing that made it so bad was that in hindsight, he very easily could have said some version of the truth that wouldn't really have messed with his image much.

- "we were drunk and getting rowdy, then someone came after us and we didn't know what was happening"

Bullshit.

It's another gotcha moment where people take pleasure in the downfall of a bright star

He is dumb as brick and just happens to be good at swimming. Hes not smart enough to go into any other kind of role

i don't disagree, but in america, youthful pop culture still celebrates fucking idiots and immature behavior all the time - Kim Kardashian, Kanye, Bieber, etc.

My point is that even if he was willing to try to laugh this situation off and profit from it, even though American youth culture might go for it, Brazilians would rage uncontrollably (which they do anyway because they're a third world country)

really though no one outside of brazil give a shit what the monkeypeople of brazil think, he just has to work on redeeming his image by doing good works in the states

If he keeps dating the Playboy model, all he has to do is live in LA, and go out with her in public places, and he'll get a lot of TMZ attention.....at least as long as he says something to the TMZ camera guy.

Downfall stories are always interesting, obviously, but people like redemption ones as well.

Brazilians would forgive him if he really meant he was sorry in interviews and did some dumb good will gesture like swimming with poor people or something. He was too arrogant in his Globo (major brazilian TV network) apology interview, as he was on the NBC one with Matt Lauer, despite the tears, in my opinion. No one in Brazil knew who he was before the incident, we only knew Michael Phelps' name, people won't hold a grudge.

He's dumb, yes, but the PR people he hired could turn it around with good advice and guidance. Like I said, he's still a gold medallist, a very talented swimmer and a good looking dude.

The biggest cultural problem in the US is how society as a whole hates giving people second chances. Theres tons of facebook campaigns now against people who were charged with crimes, went to court, found not guilty, that people are still pushing to punish. Theres currently a big campaign against some director urging people to not that apparently gangbanged some girl when they were all drunk, she later regretted it and was found not guilty of anything.

This is NOT counting the number of people that were found guilty, served their time and the pleasure people seem to get in making sure their lives are shitty forever when they get out

There are fucked up cases like Zimmerman, many of the police cases, etc, but I feel if we start going into mob justice and ignoring it all together the whole system falls apart.

The only people who will not be given second chances in society are those guilty of sex crimes.

Recovering druggies and other kinds of ex-cons are always going to have someone willing to give them at least one chance.

Sex crimes are the only crimes where there's an organized database and map system for those who have been released.

on russillo and kanell, they replayed a clip of him being asked which team is going to win between A&M and LSU, and he answered auburn would win and the caster said "we talked about this ryan"

also on cowherds show, he told a story about how he knew some guy that said you can't but this dumbass on live television.

lochte is actually like a sub 60 IQ mongoloid

act

But do you think that same mentality would apply to an athlete, though? I think things have a chance of playing out in a different way because of the fact he's a gold medallist olympian, no?

the biggest reason why a second chance might not be given to him is just how many people will be pointing out how black athletes are never given a second chance......like ray rice.

Piss on Brazil.

didn't the dogfighting guy get a second chance?

no way this guy ever made 10 million in a year

He should run for congress on a "fuck Brazil" policy.