We discovered in mid-June that Michael Phelps would star on the Discovery Network‘s annual ‘Shark Week‘ by racing a great white, and last week a promo video was released. Now, ‘Nat Geo Wild’ has come out with one of their own. The cable channel jokingly is promoting their shark week, ‘SharkFest’, as the ‘second-best known week of sharks on television’, with Ryan Lochte as the star.
Despite an illustrious career that includes six Olympic gold medals and 18 long course World Championship titles, Lochte has commonly been referred to as the world’s second best swimmer behind Phelps. Racing head-to-head six times at the Olympic Games, Phelps has walked away with the gold medal on five occasions.
Watch the Lochte promo video below, entitled “Ryan Lochte Has the 2nd Best Sharks”.
While Phelps will actually be featured on Shark Week for the Discovery Channel, Lochte won’t be on SharkFest. After taking non-stop criticism about being 2nd best throughout the promo, Lochte decides he won’t swim with the sharks after all. Check out the promo advertisement here.
You can also download the promo here.
Gotta luv when the sharks are circling the boat with chum in the water. Go ahead, get in Lochte! Haha
Hilarious! He has a great sense of humor.
Looks like Ryan is getting progressively fatter, though it does not seem to affect the results
He is just a big thick guy. If you stand next to him, it is surprising. Very powerful.
I stood next to him. I mean comparing to his 2004-2012 shape.
he has huge endurance – and his configuration is adapted to it
I think that Lochte will be the equal or the better of Phelps in terms of his career after swimming. I know that’s bold, but he’s a natural. Ryan could easily fill a vacuum of attention like The Rock did after his sporting career.
I’m not going to look past Ryan making it further than Vanilla Ice in the dancing stuff. That was just wrong.
No freaking way. Phelps has his fingers in a lot of successful business endeavors. Too bold.
If you were a marketer, you’d lose your job.
Could this be the chubbiest we’ve ever seen Lochte? The irony is my “gut” tells me he will be ready to shine in the near future.
Ryan is so modest he forgot he has 5 world records
That would be awesome if he went to the sharks’ restroom and destroyed it
He doesn’t need to, we destroy the ? everyday ??
This is actually really funny. Great ad!