Michael Phelps is a bit of a sore loser, it seems.
I base that on the interview after his race. Normally, I’d give a guy like that some slack since the last thing anyone wants, after a loss, is a microphone stuck in their mug with the “What went wrong?” question. But Phelps has been doing this since he was 15, so the mic isn’t anything new to him.
Watching him stammer, say that they “had the wrong plan” and that he was frustrated was kind of surprising. Interestingly, Bob Costas even mentioned it, but shluffed it off as him “not knowing how to handle it because he’s never been there before.”
I guess now we find out what kind of competitor he really is.