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Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps owes money for back taxes

Olympic champ Michael Phelps owes money to the taxman, according to reports in the US.

According to a tax lien filed last year the 14 times gold medalist owes the State of California $23,289.16 for tax returns back in 2005 and 2006.

Swimmer Phelps, who endorses Speedo, Omega, PowerBar, Visa and AT&T, is estimated to be worth [...]

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Michael Phelps to appear in court over expired drivers licence

Olympic swimming champion Michael Phelps will have to appear in court after he was caught driving with an expired licence.
Police gave the 24-year-old a ticket after he was involved in a car crash in his home town of Baltimore, Maryland last week.
According to reports, Phelps also admitted to police that he had had “one beer” [...]

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Michael Phelps bullied for being ‘huge bear with big ears, mother says

Michael Phelps’ mother has revealed her swimming champion son was bullied at school – because he was a ‘huge bear with big ears’.
Debbie Phelps said the eight-times gold medal winner – who towered over his classmates – was relentlessly picked on.
And she said that once he lashed out at his playground tormentors.
She said: “It wasn’t [...]

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Michael Phelps gets flak and support for pot fiasco

Apologies notwithstanding, Olympian Michael Phelps’ pot photos are surely not something any parent would be proud of especially when someone with the stature of Phelps is seen smoking a marijuana pipe. With several Olympic gold medals Phelps is considered a youth role model and when that model turns into marijuana then there’s not much to [...]

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