As usual, the athletes' off-duty activities are coming in for comment, though there's been nothing so far to match the furore created by snow boarder Ross Rebagliati at the Nagano Winter Games. He risked losing his gold medal after minute traces of marijuana were found in his urine.

Rebagliati successfully fought off the charge, saying he had been clean for 10 months and must have inhaled the fumes at a pre-Olympic party thrown by friends.

The nearest we've come in Whistler has been pictures of wildish partying showing Scotty Lago, the U.S. bronze medal halfpipe winner, allowing women to slobber over his medal in a lascivious manner. But retribution was swift, as Samuel Goldsmith reports for the New York Daily News.

"Dressed in a 'Team USA' T-shirt, Lago was photographed at a party following his award ceremony Thursday night.

He apologized Friday to the U.S. Olympic Committee and U.S. Ski & Snowboard Association, and decided it was best to pack his bags before the closing ceremonies.

Men's halfpipe snowboarding is over and Lago was not set to compete again at these Winter Games.

Olympic officials have become increasingly wary of unsportsmanlike behaviour at out-of-competition events following a series of mishaps at past games.

U.S. aerials skier Jeret (Speedy) Peterson was dismissed from the 2006 Games in Turin, Italy, after getting into a fight that was broken up by cops after a party."

Then there are nude pictures. Blogging for the British newspaper The Times, Rick Broadbent claims:

"Danish curler Madeleine Dupont was forced to defend her decision to pose nude as her team bowed out of the semis ... The 22-year-old appeared topless for a calendar called Fire on Ice, and admitted the sport's profile had been boosted, despite some lingering reservations ...

'Most people think it's cool,' she said. 'People might think "Oh, they can't play curling," but I think we can." Something of a non sequitur that, but she elaborated. 'In Denmark, more people have heard of curling now, which they didn't before and now they watch it on TV and think, "Hey that's cool".'

Dupont added of her photo shoot: 'It's probably a bad thing. Not sure it's a good thing, but it is quite stylish and it's not totally out of line.' "

North Americans can buy the calendar by visiting the Curling News website. 

Meanwhile, vigilant regulators at the International Olympics Committee have forced U.S. downhill racer Julia Mancuso to stop peddling lingerie online. The Daily Mail's Neil Wilson is on the case:

"For sale - sexy lingerie. I quote 'A lacey thong or must-have boy shorts.' Either for $15.

Selling is Julia Mancuso, the silver medallist in the women's downhill.

Not her own cast-offs but a range of a brand known as Kiss My Tiara which she created and sells through her own website juliamancuso.com. [Normal service should be resumed after the Games are over.]

Lindsey Vonn, the tall, blonde cover girl on Sports Illustrated's swimwear issue, is seen as the pin-up girl of these Alpine event but Mancuso is not far behind her, as she was in the race.

She has been happy in the recent past to pose herself surfing in a wholly impractical bikini."

Compiled by Araminta Wordsworth, National Post