Darren Rovell @darrenrovell <small class="time"> 1m1 minute ago </small>
So with Phelps now being given a fin, are all sports books calling NO ACTION?
Good question
Darren Rovell @darrenrovell <small class="time"> 1m1 minute ago </small>
So with Phelps now being given a fin, are all sports books calling NO ACTION?
Good question
I found this video.....I think this is the race.
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By Emily Yahr July 24 at 12:44 AM
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'Phelps vs. Shark' was simulated. Here are 4 times humans actually raced animals.
The simulation of Michael Phelps racing a great white shark on Discovery Channel was another bizarre episode of humans racing animals. Here are 4 times humans actually competed against animals. (Video: Monica Akhtar/Photo: Jonathan Newton/The Washington Post)
Remember back in December 2014, when Discovery Channel hyped that a man would be eaten and then regurgitated by a giant snake on a special called “Eaten Alive?” Then that didn’t actually happen, and viewers were furious?
We bring this up because 57 minutes into Discovery’s heavily promoted Sunday night Shark Week program — in which Olympic powerhouse swimmer Michael Phelps was set to race against a great white shark — viewers heard this quote from ecologist Tristan Gutteridge, one the featured scientists:
“Clearly, we can’t put Michael in one lane and a white shark on the far lane. We’re gonna have to do a simulation.”
Hold on. So Phelps wasn’t going to actually race ashark in a TV event titled “Phelps vs. Shark: Great Gold vs. Great White”?! Why was the hour-long special billed as such?
While common sense probably could have saved any disappointment — along with preshow interviews where Phelps assured everyone that he wouldn’t really race next to a shark in open water — many viewers were not pleased.
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I honestly feel so robbed that I just watched an hour of a stupid show to see Michael Phelps race a FAKE shark. #fakenews
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phelps racing a fake shark is like when ur teacher says there's gonna be a sub but shows up the next day
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Michael Phelps has been hyping up that he's going to race a shark for months now. He did it tonight and it was a damn CGI shark #FakeNews
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Throughout the episode, viewers watched as Gutteridge and the team collected data about the swim speed of sharks, which is apparently very hard to do, because sharks don’t typically swim in a straight line.
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Unacceptable, said the Internet.
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Call me crazy but I thought they were gonna put Phelps up against a real shark not a simulation. I feel robbed. #SharkWeek #PhelpsVsShark
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Should've called it Michael Phelps vs a Computer Generated Simulation. Huge letdown @Discovery
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What really rubbed salt in the wound? Phelps lost.
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The computer simulated great white shark swam 100 meters in 36.1 seconds. Phelps, fitted in a special wet suit and monofin that bound his feet together, took 38.1 seconds to swim the same distance. So close — but no dice.
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IT WAS A FAKE SHARK. Phelps raced a fake shark....and lost.
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Michael Phelps lost to a computer animated great white shark by 2 seconds...
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Phelps looked disappointed, though not surprised. Earlier in the episode, when he saw a simulation of a 20-foot great white shark competing in an Olympic swimming pool, he knew it was a long shot. After all, the shark’s average speed of 25 miles per hour was more than four times Phelps’s own top speed in the pool.
“Honestly, the first thought that went through my head when I saw the shark, there’s probably very little chance for me to beat him,” he said.
At least Discovery had a sense of humor about this special, such as when the narrator mentioned Phelps’s many Olympic accolades: “Sharks don’t care about medals.” And for those still upset about the CGI shark situation, just remember that whenever Discovery hypes something crazy happening with an animal — well, there may be a twist that makes it not quite as exciting as it seems.
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'Phelps vs. Shark' was simulated. Here are 4 times humans actually raced animals.
The simulation of Michael Phelps racing a great white shark on Discovery Channel was another bizarre episode of humans racing animals. Here are 4 times humans actually competed against animals. (Video: Monica Akhtar/Photo: Jonathan Newton/The Washington Post)
Remember back in December 2014, when Discovery Channel hyped that a man would be eaten and then regurgitated by a giant snake on a special called “Eaten Alive?” Then that didn’t actually happen, and viewers were furious?
We bring this up because 57 minutes into Discovery’s heavily promoted Sunday night Shark Week program — in which Olympic powerhouse swimmer Michael Phelps was set to race against a great white shark — viewers heard this quote from ecologist Tristan Gutteridge, one the featured scientists:
“Clearly, we can’t put Michael in one lane and a white shark on the far lane. We’re gonna have to do a simulation.”
Hold on. So Phelps wasn’t going to actually race ashark in a TV event titled “Phelps vs. Shark: Great Gold vs. Great White”?! Why was the hour-long special billed as such?
While common sense probably could have saved any disappointment — along with preshow interviews where Phelps assured everyone that he wouldn’t really race next to a shark in open water — many viewers were not pleased.
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PhantomAcct @phantomacctMichael Phelps race against a computer generated shark will go down as one of TV's most hyped flops.#gullibleTVviewers
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Hannah Bowen @HannahGBowenI honestly feel so robbed that I just watched an hour of a stupid show to see Michael Phelps race a FAKE shark. #fakenews
9:12 PM - 23 Jul 2017
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@reqnnaphelps racing a fake shark is like when ur teacher says there's gonna be a sub but shows up the next day
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Cole Hill @theSwoleColeMichael Phelps has been hyping up that he's going to race a shark for months now. He did it tonight and it was a damn CGI shark #FakeNews
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emu @emyrosaMy friend was genuinely upset when I told her Phelps' shark was CGI lol
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Throughout the episode, viewers watched as Gutteridge and the team collected data about the swim speed of sharks, which is apparently very hard to do, because sharks don’t typically swim in a straight line.
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Unacceptable, said the Internet.
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Meg Conley @MegDownSouthCall me crazy but I thought they were gonna put Phelps up against a real shark not a simulation. I feel robbed. #SharkWeek #PhelpsVsShark
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Jimmy Kozeny @jkoz19Should've called it Michael Phelps vs a Computer Generated Simulation. Huge letdown @Discovery
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Discovery is receiving a strongly worded letter fur sure.
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What really rubbed salt in the wound? Phelps lost.
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The computer simulated great white shark swam 100 meters in 36.1 seconds. Phelps, fitted in a special wet suit and monofin that bound his feet together, took 38.1 seconds to swim the same distance. So close — but no dice.
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IT WAS A FAKE SHARK. Phelps raced a fake shark....and lost.
I feel cheated #SharkWeek2017
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Casmier @KyleCasmierwe just wasted a hour waiting to see micheal phelps swim against a computer generated shark, and lose
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James Campbell @WHOtheFisJC#Spoiler #PhelpsVShark was essentially 58 minutes of fishing for sharks & 38 seconds of #Phelps in the water LOSING to a CGI #Shark.
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rmejia @rmejia08Michael Phelps lost to a computer animated great white shark by 2 seconds...
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Mike Sciandra @MikeSciandraReactions from the shark community after the Phelps/fake shark competition.
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Here are all of Michael Phelps's 28 Olympic medals
Michael Phelps is the most-decorated Olympian of all-time. Here's a look back at his 28 Olympic medals. (Video: Jayne W. Orenstein/The Washington Post/Photo: Jonathan Newton/The Washington Post)
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Phelps looked disappointed, though not surprised. Earlier in the episode, when he saw a simulation of a 20-foot great white shark competing in an Olympic swimming pool, he knew it was a long shot. After all, the shark’s average speed of 25 miles per hour was more than four times Phelps’s own top speed in the pool.
“Honestly, the first thought that went through my head when I saw the shark, there’s probably very little chance for me to beat him,” he said.
At least Discovery had a sense of humor about this special, such as when the narrator mentioned Phelps’s many Olympic accolades: “Sharks don’t care about medals.” And for those still upset about the CGI shark situation, just remember that whenever Discovery hypes something crazy happening with an animal — well, there may be a twist that makes it not quite as exciting as it seems.
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Hombrevendor @TheMansell_The people mad Phelps raced an fake shark are the same people mad they used computer graphic plates in the live action Beauty and the Beast
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Oh My Lord. They've completely messed up the Fall 2017 Show: "Kardashians Run from O.J." cuz now we totally know it'll be a Computer Generated O.J. using speed data they obtained from when OJ was with The Bills then factoring in age to create a computer-generated image of a Present-Day OJ. 
I am very very Bummed about this. I was really Looking Forward to that show.
I am very very Bummed about this. I was really Looking Forward to that show.
