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Michael Phelps punished by USA Swimming with suspension

By Douglas A. Berman

Though extra-legal and thus not a traditional sentencing, this AP story details that Michael Phelps is already being punished for being caught taking a bong hit: Michael Phelps has been suspended from competition for three months by USA Swimming, the latest fallout from a photo that showed the Olympic great inhaling from a marijuana pipe. The sport's national governing body also cut off its financial support to Phelps for the same three-month period, effective Thursday. "This is not a situation where any anti-doping rule was violated, but we decided to send a strong message to Michael because he disappointed so many people, particularly the hundreds of thousands of USA Swimming member kids who look up to him as a role model and a hero," the federation said in a statement...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on February 05, 2009 (boomark / email).