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| OLYMPIC HOTTIE RYAN LOCHTE: SWIMMING SINGLE Blog |
Sorry, ladies! Olympic hunk Ryan Lochte isn't looking for love.
"Having a girlfriend right now would be out of the question," he told PEOPLE at the U.N. Global Leadership Awards Gala in New York Wednesday. "I would like to settle down and have a family. But I'm only 24. Definitely not any time soon!"
What's keeping the sexy swimmer out of the dating pool?
Since winning his two gold medals (and two bronzes) in Beijing, "I haven't had a lot of time," he explained. "I've been traveling all over. I've only been at my house for two days." When his schedule calms down, what will Lochte look for in a mate? "I'm all about having fun," he said. "[I want] a girl who can make me laugh."
In the meantime, Lochte is focused on his other passion: Fashion. "I've always loved clothes, shoes," he added. "I'd like to try to get into that. I gave Speedo ideas for the T-shirts and board-shorts we wore at the Olympics."
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| CAUGHT IN THE ACT! Blog |
• How do you unwind in Beijing if you’re eight-time gold-medalist Michael Phelps? You have drinks by the pool – not in it! The
Olympian turned up at Beijing's Club Bud, the multi-level nightclub in the
Chaoyang district designed by Anheuser-Busch, and spent the night in
poolside cabanas along with fellow team members Ryan Lochte, Matt Grevers and Natalie Coughlin. Of course, they didn't go unnoticed – fans asked Phelps to pose for photos, and he didn't seem to mind. "A lot of people wanted to get close to him," says the guest. "But he looked pretty happy to
hang out with everyone."
• The day after she dined with Paul Rudd at Nobu,
Jennifer Aniston hit another New York landmark: the
Metropolitan Museum of Art. The actress walked around with an older man and
woman and headed toward the J.M.W. Turner special exhibition. "Everyone turned
and looked at her," a source says. Before hitting the museum, the newly single actress was spotted in the Upper East Side as she shopped at Fred Leighton Rare
Collectible Jewels.
• Lindsay Lohan and Samantha Ronson, making a change – to their hair color, at Neil George Salon in
Beverly Hills. "No more blonde highlights," a source tells us of Lohan's
look. Her girlfriend also went darker. The couple sat in the back and "were
pretty quiet and kept to themselves."
• Ryan Seacrest, sharing what appeared to be a
business meeting at New York's trendy Waverly Inn. The reality-TV host joined
four men in an oversized booth, eating a gigantic platter of oysters on the
half shell as an appetizer and delving deep in conversation.
• Sandra Oh, smiling big over the nude scene in
Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical at Central Park's
Delacorte Theater. She sat next to Top Chef's Spike
Mendelsohn, who watched the hippies while eating an ice cream sandwich.
• By ALEXIS CHIU, STEPHANIE CAIN, STEPHANIE RYGORSKY PROMMER,
ALYSSA SHELASKY and CYNTHIA WANGWant to see where the celebrity action goes down? Tour all the Celebrity Hot Spots.Thursday's Caught in the Act >
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| MICHAEL PHELPS STRIKES GOLD AGAIN! Blog |
Another one down! Michael Phelps notched another gold medal Friday, winning the 200-meter individual medley in a world-record time of 1:54.23.
For those of you keeping track at home, that makes six gold medals – and six world records – in Beijing. (Phelps also scored six golds and two bronzes four years ago, in Athens.)
"I think if it were all over today, he'd be the greatest Olympian who ever lived," said U.S. swimming coach Bob Bowman.
About his 200-meter IM swim, Phelps said, "I just wanted to step on it in the first 50 [meters] a little bit and try and get out to an early lead .... I knew in the first half, if I got a big enough lead, I thought I could hang on and that's all I wanted to do." Laszlo Cseh of Hungary placed second to Phelps – for the third time in Beijing. "I tried to do a harder start in the first 100 meters but Michael's breaststroke is awesome," Cseh said. "Michael is unbeatable."
The bronze went to Phelps's teammate – and friend – Ryan Lochte, who won the gold medal in 200-meter backstroke earlier in the day. (Two races in a single day is a "double" in swimmer parlance.)
"The 200 back and IM is a hard double, if not the hardest," Phelps said. "Ryan had an incredible swim today and I'm glad to see him get his first gold. I know he's happy."
Now Phelps is just two races away from smashing Mark Spitz's seven-gold mark set in 1972.
Aware of his fans at home, Phelps added at a post-race press conference, "I heard the ratings are the highest ever back home. People are watching the Olympics and swimming. More and more people are getting interested – and hopefully involved."
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| MICHAEL PHELPS'S PRE-SWIM RITUAL? TV TIME Blog |
Although there were no golds on the line Thursday, Michael Phelps won his 200-meter individual medley semifinal heat – and was just one-100th of a second behind his friend Ryan Lochte going into Friday's final.
Otherwise, the down day offered Phelps a rare chance to relax during his jam-packed Olympics schedule. So what does the "greatest Olympian of all time" do to unwind?
"Planet Earth, the documentary, is pretty much all I've been watching," he told reporters of the Emmy-winning BBC and Discovery series. (At the last Olympics in Athens, Phelps got pumped up by watching the hockey flick Miracle over and over.)
"It probably helps him," Phelps's longtime coach Bob Bowman said of the TV routine. "Michael likes to relax before a swim." Bowman also broke down Phelps's day for reporters. "At eight thirty we were on a bus to here [to the National Aquatics Center], then we did some stretching and warm-ups for thirty to forty minutes," he said. "Then he puts on his suit and does more warm-ups. Then he swims."
After each race, it's simply rinse and repeat. "Then he'll eat, take a nap, and then come back on the bus and do it all again, usually twice a day," he explained. "He's always done these things, really."
Phelps, 23, has already won five gold medals – with five world-record times. He has his sights set on three more races in his quest for a historic eight golds. On deck: Friday's 200-meter individual medley, Saturday's 100-meter butterfly and Sunday's 4x100-meter medley relay.
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| MICHAEL PHELPS: 'GREATEST OLYMPIAN OF ALL TIME!' Blog |
Michael Phelps continued his gold rush Wednesday, winning two more gold medals and smashing two world records.
The wins – his 10th and 11th career golds – make him with winningest Olympian in history. As the announcer at the National Aquatics Centers declared, that makes him "arguably the greatest Olympian of all time." (The comment earned a smile from Phelps, who remained stoic for most of the competition.)
The day began less than auspiciously, when Phelps's goggles filled up with water during the 200-meter butterfly. The 23-year-old still won handily – in a world-record time of 1:52.03 – but he was visibly annoyed after he touched the wall.
"I couldn't see anything for the last 100 [meters]," Phelps said afterward in a press conference. "It just kept getting worse and worse through the race."
Although he was disappointed in his time, Phelps begrudgingly admitted, "for the circumstances, I guess it's not too bad."
Actually, it got much better. Later in the day, Phelps led off the U.S. 800 freestyle relay. The team – which included Ryan Lochte, Ricky Berens and Peter Vanderkaay – won gold in under 7 minutes, with a mark of 6:58.56. (That shattered the Americans' previous world record by 3.63 seconds.) "It's everything I ever dreamed about," Phelps said of winning his second relay gold in Beijing. "On the podium, I kept tearing [up] at it. I'm almost at a loss for words .... It's the best thing having four American guys ... swim all well together."
The gold medals give Phelps his fourth and fifth wins in China – putting him more than halfway toward his historic quest of claiming eight victories in the Games. (American swimmer Mark Spitz holds the current record of seven gold medals in a single Summer Olympics.)
"From now on, it's just a downward slope," Phelps said. "The end is close. I love it! I've still got some left in the tank."
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