As the above picture shows, you can see the purple spots on Phelps' body. People are very confused with the mysterious spots. Are those new tattoos of Phelps?Chinese are very familiar with them, because the purple spots come from our Traditional Cupping.
The picture Phelps shared on his Instagram.
At the Rio Olympics, Cupping is no longer the Chinese athletes' exclusive secret. Many foreign athletes are also attracted by the ancient Chinese Treatment-- Cupping and having become the fans of it. In addition to Phelps, American gymnastics team, Belarus swimmer Sankovich etc, all choose Cupping as a method of recovery after training and competition.
After finding the cupping spots on Phelps' body, US media couldn't help but made a joke, "Is Phelps sleeping on his gold medal whole night?" As we all know, the gold medal is circle shape. The circle cupping spot is almost the same as medal shape.
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