American swimmer Michael Phelps's affecting acknowledgment to his new Under Armour ad

BALTIMORE (Reuters) - American swimmer Michael Phelps, the a lot of busy Olympian of all time, said on
Tuesday he hopes this year's Rio Olympics can advice alleviate a sports apple hit by contempo doping and bribery cases.

Phelps, who is acquisitive to add to his extraordinary accumulating of 18 Olympic gold medals at the Aug. 5-21 Rio Games, feels the world's better multi-sports accident has the abeyant to advice humans move on from the contempo access of abrogating headlines.

"The Olympic movement has consistently been uplifting. To accept so abounding nations calm in one baby breadth aggressive for Olympic medals, it's an amazing experience," Phelps told Reuters during an account in Baltimore.

+"There's so abundant action about the Olympics that hopefully we can about-face some of these abrogating belief into a absolute with what's traveling to appear this advancing summer."

Russian tennis amateur Maria Sharapova's acceptance this anniversary that she bootless a biologic analysis was the latest aphotic billow to hit the apple of action afterward apple soccer physique FIFA removing its top leaders in a bribery aspersion and allegations of boundless doping in Russian athletics.

"In a absolute apple everybody would adulation to accept apple-pie sports all around. That's absolutely all that needs to be said," said Phelps.

"For us, we don't apperceive if we're continuing next to anyone who is doping or is not doping. The alone affair I apperceive at the end of the day is that I can ascendancy what I do and who I become and that's all I anguish about."

Phelps, who will be 31 during the Rio Games and has committed himself to one endure run at Olympic celebrity afterwards accepting appear his retirement at the 2012 London Olympics, was actualization at the Under Armour circuitous to advance his newest TV bartering for the sports accoutrement company.

Phelps, who said he had bootless to accord his best accomplishment at the London Games due to sub-par alertness admitting acceptable four gold and two argent medals in 2012, is bent to be at his best in Rio and has appropriate motivation.

The swimmer, who has a almanac 22 Olympic medals in all, shrugged off apropos about the Zika virus and added bloom and abuse worries surrounding the Rio Games and said his wife planned to biking to Brazil with their bairn son, accepted to be built-in May, to watch him swim.

"We're not afraid with traveling with our newborn," said Phelps.

"That’s something that we’re both searching advanced to. Being able to accept our son watch the endure time I anytime attempt is something that will be a fun adventure and a moment that I’ll never forget."