# Where and Who Is Phelps' Coach? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [August 11, 2016, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-and-who-is-phelps-coach/762408 "2016-08-11T02:24:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jinx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Jinx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jinx)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2016, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-and-who-is-phelps-coach/762408/1 "2016-08-11T02:24:57Z")
The title is my question. Actually, where are all the swimming coaches? I don’t ever see them. You see the coaches for gymnasts. So what’s the deal here? ---
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2016, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-and-who-is-phelps-coach/762408/2 "2016-08-11T02:33:55Z")
The coach of the Hungarian woman with three golds is her husband and he is all over the TV. I predict she is banned from the sport and her medals stripped within two years. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2016, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-and-who-is-phelps-coach/762408/3 "2016-08-11T02:38:11Z")
You haven’t been watching very closely. The coaches are shown on screen quite a few times. They don’t need to be on the pool deck because there’s not much to coach a swimmer at that point. Phelps’s coach is Bob Bowman. ---
**Author:** ![Jinx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Jinx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jinx)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2016, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-and-who-is-phelps-coach/762408/4 "2016-08-11T03:20:24Z")
> [@Telemark](#): > > You haven’t been watching very closely. The coaches are shown on screen quite a few times. They don’t need to be on the pool deck because there’s not much to coach a swimmer at that point. > > Phelps’s coach is Bob Bowman. I haven’t even heard them mention his coach. His mom and fiancee and baby, yes. No doubt. But, I never even hear the announcers say anything about the coach’s reaction, nothing. Even the retiring Hungarian coach of the American “Final Five” (I am so bad with names) gets camera time. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2016, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-and-who-is-phelps-coach/762408/5 "2016-08-11T12:33:32Z")
His coach is the dolphin that impregnated his mother. This guy is like a bio-engineered comic book character. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2016, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-and-who-is-phelps-coach/762408/6 "2016-08-11T12:53:13Z")
His coach has a thousand names, of which the best known is Lucifer… ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2016, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-and-who-is-phelps-coach/762408/7 "2016-08-11T14:40:41Z")
> [@Jinx](#): > > I haven’t even heard them mention his coach. His mom and fiancee and baby, yes. No doubt. But, I never even hear the announcers say anything about the coach’s reaction, nothing. Even the retiring Hungarian coach of the American “Final Five” (I am so bad with names) gets camera time. They’ve shown him a bunch of times after the race. They cut to the back room where everyone is watching on TV.