
Overcoming incredible odds, 11 year-old
Andy Lacefield, Jr successfully tossed all five rings onto two-liter
bottles to win a live Micheal Phelps yesterday in Rio de Janeiro. The
audience on the Olympic Midway watched in silent awe as Lacefield
deftly tossed the rings one by one, before bursting into applause and
chants of “USA! USA!” as the final ring rattled and settled onto
a Diet Orange Fanta bottle. “I've never had an Olympic swimmer
before,” said the Bloomfield, Kentucky native. “Just some
guppies. I wonder if he'll eat them.” The most decorated athlete
in Olympic history darted from side to side while the young Lacefield
poked at the plastic bag containing Phelps, until his mother, Jenny
Lacefield told him to stop it. Mrs. Lacefield was absent from her
son's successful ring toss, and when asked if watching her son
compete made her anxious, she replied “Nah, I was in line for a
funnel cake.”