{"id":10291,"date":"2009-08-02T12:42:10","date_gmt":"2009-08-02T16:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.IreneEng.com\/?p=10291"},"modified":"2009-08-02T12:42:10","modified_gmt":"2009-08-02T16:42:10","slug":"unsportsmen-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=10291","title":{"rendered":"unSportsmen of the year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.IreneEng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/phelps.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10300 left\" title=\"Phelps in Rome\" src=\"http:\/\/www.IreneEng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/phelps.jpg\" alt=\"phelps\" width=\"349\" height=\"265\" \/><\/a>Yaaaaaa &#8230; you go Michael Phelps!!! He just break 50 seconds in the 100-meter butterfly, clocked in at 49.82 at the world swimming championships in Rome. Milorad Cavic also broke 50 seconds, but 49.95 only got him a silver\u2014and plenty of words to eat. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/?p=2170\">Cavic still believes he won in Beijing<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/08\/01\/AR2009080102102.html\">mocked Phelps&#8217; swimming suit<\/a> .. .. he must be a cool joker<\/p>\n<p><em>Serbia&#8217;s Milorad Cavic<\/em> is the term one would likely to read in the media about Milorad Cavic who&#8217;s born in Anaheim, California in 1984. It feels bit odd. Maybe they have stronger nationalism than Irene .. OR the American swimming team has too many stars.<\/p>\n<p>Ok, enough of geography.. here&#8217;s another dude ..<\/p>\n<p>After winning the Tour, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2009\/07\/27\/contador-i-will-never-adm_n_245821.html\">Alberto Contador<\/a> said he<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I have never admired him [Lance Armstrong] and never will.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>They were Astana team teammates.<\/p>\n<p>Legstrong is very admirable. Beat cancer and won the Tour de France seven consecutive times. The saddest thing is when one doesn&#8217;t know the good stuff when he sees one. The &#8216;admire him not&#8217; proclamation would have a silver connotation IF Contador beats Legstrong&#8217;s record. Roger Federer never said nasty thing about Sampras, before or after he broke Pete&#8217;s 14 grand slams records. Guess Roger is just a more secure man of that sport. Knowing his place and ability. Needing not to trade on being unsportsmenlike.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yaaaaaa &#8230; you go Michael Phelps!!! He just break 50 seconds in the 100-meter butterfly, clocked in at 49.82 at the world swimming championships in Rome. Milorad Cavic also broke 50 seconds, but 49.95 only got him a silver\u2014and plenty of words to eat. Cavic still believes he won in Beijing, and mocked Phelps&#8217; swimming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[16,9],"class_list":["post-10291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-swim","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}