In terms of weight gain after retiring at least! Day-yum!
I wonder if he’ll start getting all bitter and jaded like Greg too? 
Article here
Ahhh… the “swimmers curse” … you go from consuming and burning 10,000 calories a day to just consuming… I think this affects about 75% of the college swimming community in the states.
Give him a couple years. Maybe he’ll wise up and then get into triathlon.
Wow! That looks bad. Lemond is a lot heavier than he retired, but that was over 16 years ago. Thorpe is 27 years old and only retired in 2006.
Even at his peak, he seemed to carry a bit more fat than most elite swimmers. A swimmer’s appetite, a little bit of a propensity to store fat plus a drastic reduction in activity gives you this. Hopefully he’s working toward a healthier balance of eating/activity.
Are you a hetero male?
If so, being that I am one, I don’t understand why one would not only care if a dude put on weight let alone take the time to post pics of a dude.
I couldn’t care less if a guy put on weight but that’s just me…
Chicks on the other hand, totally different story : )
He looks more normal now.
Exactly, one more world class athlete out of shape just makes me that much more attractive…
it’s almost like the Charles Barkley diet, you don’t lose weight you just start hanging out with people bigger than you are…
In terms of weight gain after retiring at least! Day-yum! I wonder if he’ll start getting all bitter and jaded like Greg too? Article here
He has the real swimmer body now 
Swimmers are FAT!
Are you a hetero male?
If so, being that I am one, I don’t understand why one would not only care if a dude put on weight let alone take the time to post pics of a dude.
I couldn’t care less if a guy put on weight but that’s just me…
Chicks on the other hand, totally different story : )
Wait, you telling me you’re into chicks who put on weight?
Of course!
But only that chick from “Shallow Hal”…
at least his nose looks smaller now.
What is that black stuff on his chest??
He was 90kg when he was 13 so I think he has the potential to be a large man ! Kieran Perkins is also rather chunky now, but no swimmer down under can stack it on like this guy who is now making a comeback ;
And he has already lost 30kg.
I thought this was going to be about him being gay.
http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/story/0,28383,24973901-5013560,00.html
Bet he can still outswim me on any distance, any stroke.
Naw… hes still skinny compared to Lemond… and he hasn’t claimed Lance has taken PEDs yet
Dave
You have to give up a lot to be great…hell none of us on this forum (maybe one or two) has any idea what it takes to get to the top (or we would be there).
Who cares if they get out of shape after, they earned the right to binge by being so incredibly driven for those years. I’m sure if he wants to get back into shape he will.
Enjoy retirement Ian.
Nice post. Would hold more water if it wasn’t posted by someone who has been known to reply hastily and in a nasty way to someone asking an innocent question.
I wondered why in the past few months your posts have become much kinder and gentler than usual. Now I understand. Maybe it is because you are now back to earth with us mortals.
I see you also changed your sig.
Whoa. Someone had a couple too many Molson or Labatt Blues tonight. Relax dude, no one said he wasn’t a great swimmer for what he did. Other than the link to the other rumor someone posted, it was all in good fun. I didn’t see you get all worked up when people said Lance looked heavy when he was running on the beach with his good mates Mcconaughey and Gyllenhaal.
I used to wish I was built like him. Mission accomplished.