TMZ first reports this:

After getting the diss from a fellow swimmer and a model, looks like Michael Phelps may have found somebody to love him –- hot Aussie gold medal swimmer Stephanie Rice.

Phelps was spotted, reports the New York Post, swappin’ spit with Stephanie Rice, during a “celebratory bash” outside the Olympic Village. Rice had been with fellow Aussie Eamon Sullivan for a long time – and just split with him recently. “All the swimmers are talking about it,” says one source.

Phelps elicited this priceless reaction from Amanda Beard, when she was asked about dating Mikey: “Eww, that’s nasty.

They later mention this:

Former Olympian Matthew Syed, who now works as a commentator, wrote for the Times of London, “This sex fest … [happened] right here in Beijing. Olympic athletes have to display an unnatural … level of self-discipline in the build-up to big competitions. How else is this going to manifest itself than with a volcanic release of pent-up hedonism?”

Syed said that winners “as geeky as Michael Phelps” were sought after by the female athletes, but that losers get their share as well.

Matthew says he “got laid more often in those two and a half weeks (at the Barcelona games in ‘92) than the rest of my life up to that point.” And he was freakin’ table tennis player!