“I never got invited. You don’t go to the Olympics just to say, I am going to go. Especially because of who I am,” Spitz told AFP in Hong Kong.

“I am going to sit there and watch Michael Phelps break my record anonymously? That’s almost demeaning to me. It is not almost—it is.”

If the linked article is real, and the quotations are honest, then Mark Spitz is the biggest douchebag of all time.

If the article is not real, and/or the quotes are made up, then please forget I implied that Mark Spitz is a totally self-absorbed loser.