Aug 14 2008
The Magic of Michael Phelps
Everyone lately with the Olympiads we have seen some of the best and worse of sport, but one of those interesting moments were to see Michael Phelps breaking records, but what is appealing of Michael Phelps? Well, so many answers came to my head, he is one of the top sportsmen, many people love him and he has money, but still what is Michael appeal?, well, probably the most easy answer I could find was that Michael has the typical boy next door and many people can feel relate to him because he will evoke the image of everyone next door neighbor.
Also I was thinking beside Michael looks, his many achievements and hard looks are a living proof that the American Dream can be achievement if you believe it, probably Michael is the living proof that if you believe it you can achieve it and that iconography appeal to many people and make Michael’s public image commercially to a general audience, but even is public image is impeccable and people fantasies with his image, most of the time they forget he is not a god but a regular and average kid from Maryland, who suffers ADHD, who was arrested by DUI and he was later regretting because he let down his family, he is just a man who carries not only his triumphs and defeats but the weight of been an Olympian, and he is only 23 years, at his 23 years of living he carries more pressure than any other twenty something, but still he embodies what many people want to achieve.
At the end, he is just a 23 years old guy who has achieve more than many people in a lifetime, but still he is just a kid who likes to have fun and even if the Baltimore Sun describes him as “A Solitary Man”, he is just a guy who wants his privacy to be respected and enjoy his anonymity as a regular person.
