Bronze medal winning snowboarder Scotty Lago has reportedly left the Olympics after a pair of racy celebratory photos surfaced.
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U.S. snowboarder Scotty Lago leaves Olympics after controversy
- February 21, 2010 6:01 PM |
- By Erin Valois
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By Ron Nurwisah, National Post
Bronze medal winning snowboarder Scotty Lago has reportedly left the Olympics after a pair of racy celebratory photos surfaced.
One of the photo, which originally appeared on gossip blog TMZ, shows a female fan trying to bite on Lago's medal while it was dangling around his waist.
Lago reportedly apologized to the U.S. Olympic Committee and the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association.
The USSA said that Lago left the Games on his own accord. "Scotty left on his own accord. He wasn't forced to leave," said USSA spokesman Patrick Sandusky.
But there are conflicting reports that said the association gave the medal winner marching orders to avoid drawing more attention to the situation.
Lago seems to be taking it all in stride. Yesterday, after his return home, he made fun of the whole situation. "Got home this morning to all my homies. Such a good Olympic experience. Keeping my medal in a safe spot for now huh," Lago wrote on his Twitter account.
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- Bruce Arthur Bruce Arthur is the National Post's national sports columnist. A Vancouver native, he has been with the Post since 2001, and a columnist since 2005. He is covering his second Olympics, after the 2008 Games in Beijing. He expects these Games to be slightly less propagandistic, and for China to win slightly fewer medals.
- Joe O'Connor Joe O'Connor is a roving sports feature writer with an open-ended beat. He joined the National Post in 2002, and has spent the past seven years bouncing from sport to sport, offering fresh perspectives and delivering unique stories wherever he goes. Whether it has been getting Don Cherry to open up about his love life; George Chuvalo to talk about heartbreaking loss; or racing down the side of a mountain with former Crazy Canuck, Dave Irwin, the veteran Postie chases a story wherever it leads. Before joining the newspaper he was a two-time silver medalist at the National Magazine Awards. Vancouver will be his first Olympics.
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