struggle of Michael Phelps

The other day i was reading the Yahoo homepage, when something caught my eye. Michael Phelps, a worldclass athlete had a picture of him smoking marijuana. Although he still set multiple world records, his sponsors and many others were outraged by this simple picture. His career was going well and all of a sudden, this comes. One small thing and it puts his job in jepardy. Personally, i think this was taken way out of control. If you talk to all of the people around his age, i would say over 50% of them have tried this illegal substance. He really is not doing anything out of the ordinary, it just happend to get out of hand.