Scandals

There were quite a few scandals that arose during the 2010 Winter Games, one involving U.S. snowboarder Scotty Lago. After winning the half-pipe Olympic bronze medal Lago voluntarily left the ceremony on Friday after racy photos of him were released online Thursday. The photo showed a woman kissing his bronze medal near his waist and the second photo shows Lago sticking the medal in the woman’s mouth. Lago replied, ‘Just keeping my medal in a safe spot for now, ha ha’.

Both images surfaced online and appeared on TMZ Friday afternoon. Lago was forced to leave the Olympics by United States Ski and Snowboard Association and was forced to defend himself and apologize on U.S. television.

A scandal such as this does not look good for the team or the organization. Although Lago is a great athlete through his stunt he was not showing responsibility of proper conduct and was not demonstrating acceptable behavior. This is not what the Ski and Snowboarding association stands for and a scandal like this does damage to their image.

http://www.whatsonxiamen.com/news10661.html - pics of scandal

http://www.popcrunch.com/scotty-lago-picture-scandal-cuts-olympic-dreams-short/