Michael Phelps' Girlfriend: Stephanie Rice? Swimmers Spotted Making Out

UPDATE: Caroline Pal is Michael Phelps' girlfriend as of November 2008


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Michael Phelps' love life has been the source of many rumors over the last week — including, most notably, his connections to fellow gold medalist Amanda Beard and British model Lily Donaldson. But the question of Michael Phelps' girlfriend may have been put to rest after the swimmer was spotted making out in Beijing with Australian swimming sensation Stephanie Rice, according to Page Six:

Michael Phelps doesn't have a girlfriend, but he celebrated his record-breaking eight gold medals in Beijing by sneaking off for a sizzling game of tonsil hockey with one of Australia's hottest Olympians.

Phelps, fresh from shattering Mark Spitz's 36-year-old record, was spotted Monday night in a hot make-out session with Down Under swimmer Stephanie Rice, a source tells The Post's Clemente Lisi and Luke Dennehy. The pumped-up pair clinched and swapped spit at a celebratory bash outside the Olympic Village.

The Baltimore Bullet swooped in for the lip-lock with the 20-year-old brunette just weeks after she split from Aussie swimmer Eamon Sullivan. "All the swimmers are talking about it, and [Sullivan] is cut up about what happened," the source said.

The day after the face-sucking frolics, Phelps and Rice cheekily posed together for Speedo - laughing and playfully groping each other as a photographer snapped them in their swimsuits. "I definitely admire him for his athletic ability and everything he's achieved," gushed Rice, who won three gold medals of her own. "I'm just really glad to be in the mix with that."

Whether the dynamic duo is now a couple isn't known. Phelps' rep didn't return our calls.

Previously: Michael Phelps' Girlfriend: He Addresses Rumors, Beard Says "Ew" No

Comments

[rosanna31]

O.m.g I am so jealous.Who is this Rice girl? and where did she come from. I hope they just kiss and thats it..

[funnyman26]

Their kids will be breaking many records...

[chinationreport]

Who is the girl next to him in this picture?
http://www.chinationreport.com/phelpschinaconnection.html
http://www.chinationreport.com/phelpsfirstendorsement.html

[thathockeychick23]

ok so they were making out. big deal. it does not mean a thing. the olympics are like that. people have the hormones raging, they make out with one another and nothing comes of it. besides phelps just won eight gold medals, is making a lot of money, and he is handsome and young. you think he's going to stick with a chick on the otherside of the world, when he can date around and get plenty of hot chicks. i don't think so. this was nothing more than a 23 year old man making out with a girl. i'm sure we will hear michael making out with lots of girls in the near future.

[Oh Jeez]

people!
why cant you just be happy for him and her?
i think they would be an Adorable couple.
and them kissing is splendid.
so stop being so fridgin' jelous of how great they both look and how wonderful at swimming they are.

[liveride]

The Aussies will be inviting Michael down under for a country wide breeding tour. They shall gather all attractive females of exceptional physical attributes to participate in a mating ritual with MP as a means to develop the most dominating race of swimming champions ever to be born. Next he will travel to New Zealand, Japan, and China to repeat, before finally settling down in the US with the government mandated one mate policy. Let's jump on the bandwagon now and convince MP that the USA has the most enticing breeding stock a democratic nation can offer, and allow him to be the progenitor to an American race of Aqua-Mariners.

Christopheles, I see your vison coming true.

[blowhard]

I thought he liked it in the p u p a

[HRH]

Gotta keep that under wraps. Think of the $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ to be lost!

[jmo007]

She, Stephanie Rice, is probably a golddigger since she knows he, Mchael Phelps, is going to be filthy rich now. She's probably not the only one in line to try to insnare him. Next we will hear about a baby on its way.

[Christopheles]

I, for one, applaud their union and welcome the day when their cyborg-dol­phin/peopl­e offspring invade our beaches to establish themselves as our aquatic rulers.

[Jaskoen]

LOL, well played.

[dora rice]

Imagining Phelps making out give me the hives. * gag* I rather just think of his swimming abilitiy....I don't think he ever can sell Haynes.

[Mij13]

Are you a Lesbitarian?

[sixletters]

Why is it that people keep making negative comments about his looks? Is he really that unattractive?

[firelord5000]

Ya being fit, having an 8-pack, is so totally disgusting! As Amanda Beard would say, "Ew"!
Hope sarcasm was detectable. Don't hate him for being better looking then you ever will be.

[villain2]

Must be hard as hell to have people being all in your personal life all over the world. But hey, Phelps is a professional now so I guess it's fair game.

Learn more about Michael Phelp's father:
http://webchannel24.com/sports/articles.php?pageid=articles&articleID=263

[mheister]

Well the tabs have found their next set of targets....

[Jason357]

That's some of the crudest writing I have ever witnessed in my life. Is all civility gone form journalism? Humor is fine, but let's be adults about it.

[deceiveandobsfucate]

Man, I bet Ian Thorpe is REALLY mad now...! ;-)

Congrats to Phelps for showing the world what a little inspiration can achieve.

[wilfredo]

Why no headlining of one of the shocking upsets of this Olympics? Aussie Matthew Mitcham upsetting the favored Chinese on his last dive to win the 20m platform gold, and he's an OPENLY gay man, perhaps the first in Olympic history. He may be "light in the loafers" but he's physically and mentally tough as nails. What a model for gay kids in China, the homophobic world of sports, and everywhere their humanity is denied. If only one's sexuality were irrelevant, if only... OK, homophobes, fire away!

[SouthJerseySteve]

You already know the answer to your question, my friend! NBC wouldn't even broadcast the metal ceremony--too embarrassing to the Yanks? Just goes to show you: Gay Men Rule Diving! (remember Greg Louganis?).

[HRH]

Greg Louganis, aahhhhhh!

[foofighter]

NBC apologized lamely saying the omission was unwitting. Suuuuure it was!

[mrhla]

I was so impressed with Mitcham. He is a great athlete. I was very disappointed when NBC did not show his metal ceremony. I do not know if his lack of coverage is a homophobic or nationalistic issue. Perhaps both. I am sure, however, that in his homeland of Australia he is very much the headline.