USA Swimming suspends Michael Phelps for 6 months
USA Swimming has suspended Michael Phelps after he was arrested and charged with drunken driving.
COLORADO SPRINGS (AP) - USA Swimming has suspended Michael Phelps for six months, forced him to withdraw from next year s world championships and taken away his funding from the sport s national governing body as a result of the Olympic champion s second DUI arrest.
The sanctions announced Monday won t keep Phelps from training with his North Baltimore club, but he won t be allowed to participate in USA Swimming-sanctioned meets through March 6, 2015. Phelps and USA Swimming also agreed that he won t compete in the world swimming championships in Russia next July. His monthly funding stipends will be stopped during the suspension.
Phelps announced he was entering a six-week, in-patient program last weekend, a week after he was arrested and charged with drunken driving in his hometown of Baltimore.
