What Phelps might do now

Thinking about what Michael Phelps might do after his post-Olympic victory tour (and the USOC would be stupid not to milk him for everything they can get out of him), the question must be -what do you do next?  I imagine that it might have something to do with swimming.   And that reminded me of Tom Dolan, who held the 400 IM record for a remarkable 8 years until Phelps broke it, and if the 400 IM can be considered the decathlon of swimming (reasonable), then he was arguably the world's greatest all-around swimmer from 1994 to 2000.  

Let me also note here that winning the Olympic 400 IM is not easy, in case anyone thinks Ryan Lochte had a poor showing at the Olympics. 

But anyway, Dolan opened the Tom Dolan Swim School in northern Virginia.  While there's been a recent scandal about the conduct of Dolan's coach Rick Curl, Dolan's record and accomplishments shouldn't be affected at all by that.  And the point of this article is:   it wouldn't surprise me if Phelps follows Dolan's lead and opens a similar type swim school at the NBAC facility in Baltimore, working with Bob Bowman.  On the other hand, the love-hate relationship between Phelps and Bowman might mean that won't work, and Phelps might freelance.  It will be interesting to see where he goes, considering that it's ALWAYS difficult for anyone whose entire life, or close to it, has been defined by and dedicated to one thing.  I hope he does well. One interesting thing about athletes as good at what they do as Phelps -- sometimes it's hard to tell and teach others how to do it they way they do.  The fact that they have unusual natural abilities that make it possible for them to exceed the average human capabilities is one reason for that common difficulty.