olympics

Press Release:

The Empire State Games will be making a stop in Batavia with the Olympic Torch on their way to Buffalo this Saturday, January 29th.  The representatives from Empire State Games expect to reach the Batavia Ice Rink (soon likely to be known as the David McCarthy Memorial Ice Arena) at 8 a.m.  They will arrive through the front doors and go to the Rink and pass the torch to an awaiting Genesee Amateur Hockey Rampart player who will proceed to skate around the rink and pass the torch off to other Rampart players.  There will be a photo shoot in front of the trophy case before their departure.

 

 By now, everybody has seen the photo of Olympic star Michael Phelps smoking marijuana out of a bong.

Phelps is 22 years old and won a record eight gold medals in the 2008 Olympics, propelling him to iconic status. He picked up many many endorsement deals and fans in the process.

But he attended a party at the University of South Carolina with a female student he was seeing when the now-famous photo was snapped. 

Some people think Phelps needs to be role model because he is a professional athlete and should not doing anything like this in public, while many people don't think it is a big deal because he is college age and doing what many kids that age do.

What is your opinion?

Would you want your children to look at professional athletes as role models?
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