https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_FCymQC67E
Discovery hyped up that Michael Phelps was going to race a shark during Shark Week and the fans could not wait to see it happen. It was like shark bait to them. Only thing, if you did not watch interviews with him leading up to it, then you are pissed today. That is because he only raced a computer generated version of a shark and not a real one. So the great white was a great white lie. Even Ryan Lochte is like I am more admirable than him today.
Maybe the pissed off fans can be consoled by the fact that he lost to the fake shark by two whole seconds. He only takes home the silver.