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Sports Snowboarder Booted From Olympics For...
Posted by Dan Savage on Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 8:49 AM
...acting like a snowboarder.
Scotty Lago won the bronze medal in the halfpipe and then headed out in the streets of Vancouver to party. When some Canadian slut a good-time gal asked to kiss his medal, Lago slung it around his waist, lifted his shirt, and graciously allowed the girl to kiss his medal. (Why the girl opted to kiss his medal and not his abs is utterly beyond me.) Someone snapped a picture, which wound up on TMZ, and then the U.S. Olympic Committee basically forced Lago to leave the Olympics. Because athletes at the Olympics are "cultural ambassadors" who represent their home countries and Lago wasn't comporting himself like a "cultural ambassador" and "cultural ambassadors" don't flirt with the locals, lift their shirts, let strange women kiss their medals. Cultural ambassadors stay in Olympic Village and fuck the Olympic shit out their fellow cultural ambassadors using some of the 100,000 condoms provided for them by Olympic organizers.
I have to say that I'm disappointed—not in Lago, but in the rest of the U.S. Olympic Snowboarding Team. When Lago was pressured to leave the Olympics, the whole team should have headed out into the streets of Vancouver, posed for similar photos, and then dared the U.S. Olympic Committee to send them all home. The snowboarders are the biggest draw at the Winter Olympics and they should've taken a stand in defense of their teammate, in defense of flirting, and in defense of—for lack of a better term—"snowboard culture," which is all about having fun.
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No more champagne-soaked victory celebrations, no more medal-winning athletes being sexy-flirty or doing bong hits. Sports in this country has been utterly Disney-fied. Zzzzzz.
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you know, the anything goes ethic actually is pretty reactionary.
The notion that decorum is always bullshit is pretty stupid.
And if you sign up for something, dude, you have agreed to play by their rules.
You want some other rules, go start your own slacker baggy pants olympics. Go ahead, put it on the web and prove how out of date the other olympics are.
because when you do that, then you're going to have rules, too.
"ohmygod so and so snowboarder took our domain name and made 25 variations and he's stealing our good will!"
the notion that rules are per se bad sorta went out at Altamont.
The notion that decorum is always bullshit is pretty stupid.
And if you sign up for something, dude, you have agreed to play by their rules.
You want some other rules, go start your own slacker baggy pants olympics. Go ahead, put it on the web and prove how out of date the other olympics are.
because when you do that, then you're going to have rules, too.
"ohmygod so and so snowboarder took our domain name and made 25 variations and he's stealing our good will!"
the notion that rules are per se bad sorta went out at Altamont.
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3 made me laugh. "You want some other rules, go start your own slacker baggy pants olympics." Comedy gold! I'll be using that a lot today.
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@3: they did. And it was so successful that the regular Olympics, needing viewers and wanting young people to pay attention to them, asked the snowboarders to join.
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The sad part is many of the old men who run the Olympics and asked the guy to leave, probably are the ones who put mistletoe on their belt buckles when drunk at Christmas parties.
And I second that the other snowboarders should have stuck up for their fellow competitor. Shawn White should have done the same and dared them to kick him out. Of course, it is probably endorsements before bros, so I doubt that is going to happen.
And I second that the other snowboarders should have stuck up for their fellow competitor. Shawn White should have done the same and dared them to kick him out. Of course, it is probably endorsements before bros, so I doubt that is going to happen.
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@3
Anything goes? I don't really understand what the big deal with the picture is. If I had enough will in me to work everyday at something for 4 years and then was judged best in the world I would do more than have a lady kissing my medal to celebrate. Kissing ladies is what winning stuff is all about.
Similiar celebrations have happened at every olympics, it is just now we just now have a system in place to get these pictures everywhere. If you think the 2006, 2002, 1968 etc Olympians won gold medals and then went to bed you are mistaken.
Altamont?
Anything goes? I don't really understand what the big deal with the picture is. If I had enough will in me to work everyday at something for 4 years and then was judged best in the world I would do more than have a lady kissing my medal to celebrate. Kissing ladies is what winning stuff is all about.
Similiar celebrations have happened at every olympics, it is just now we just now have a system in place to get these pictures everywhere. If you think the 2006, 2002, 1968 etc Olympians won gold medals and then went to bed you are mistaken.
Altamont?
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Dan, I agree with your sentiment, but did you really need to say "some Canadian slut asked to kiss his medal" First off there are thousands of people from around the world in Vancouver right now so what proof do you have that she is Canadian? Secondly, does it really matter what her nationality is? Would it be better if it was "some American Slut"? And thirdly, what is it that makes her a slut? Because she wanted to kiss the medal? Because it was around his waste, I don't think she asked for that specifically. Do you have a reliable source that she has been fucking indiscriminately during the Olympics? I expect better from you Dan.
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My reading of comments by Lago suggest that he decided to go home on his own, before the Olympic Committee had a chance to act. Here is a good link to his local paper with lots of quotes and background and so forth:
http://www.eagletribune.com/punews/local…
I was particularly interested in his comments about being "set up".
Unfortunately, this side story may overshadow the accomplishment.
http://www.eagletribune.com/punews/local…
I was particularly interested in his comments about being "set up".
Unfortunately, this side story may overshadow the accomplishment.
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@14: I meant that in a sex-positive sense, IC. I like Canadians, I like girls (platonically), and I admire safe and responsible sluts of either gender. But I changed it to make amends.
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Wasn't the precedent for this set at the Turin Olympics? The very same thing happened and people had to leave. All the athletes know this is expected of them. Is it prudish? Maybe. But it wasn't a surprise to any of them. It's really sad, though, if someone did set him up. Loser.
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Well, 14, bitchy feminist that I am, I like the "s" word, just like I like the "b" word. I saw it as sex-positive too. But for the sake of international relations I'm happy to accept Dan's correction.
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@7 and @13.
Yes I knew Altamont would draw fire. You win a minor quibble, yes, you do, Altamont murder isn't the same as a fake blow job. You get a brownie point, woo hoo!
The point is in every group, even in the slacker baggy pants olympics there are going to be rules that are enforced legally, economically or just socially. So this notion that "all rules are bad becuase they're rules, woo hoo!" is or the "Argument" of "get off my lawn" (i.e., this is an "old person" notions of rules are inherently silly") are belied in practice by the same people who take that silly position.
Go ahead slackers, you want to get rich off your cool idea? You will soon be ardently enforcing rules about LLC's, property and intellectual property dudes. You want a baggy pants slacker Olympics? I guarantee you will want that stadium dude who promised to rent you the stadium for Jan. 5th to fucking adhere to his fucking contract.
The response that equates my point with advocacy of any particular rules is a straw man. As for the alleged baggy slacker Olympics, um, okay, if you say so, they started one and it caused the other olympics to take up boarding, but then the boarder agreed to the rules of the real olympics, so we're back to the main point which is this pretence of all rules are silly is both wrong and hypocritical and reflects unaware childish naivete.
You don't like the rule about acting a certain way in public? don't agree to it dude.
Yes I knew Altamont would draw fire. You win a minor quibble, yes, you do, Altamont murder isn't the same as a fake blow job. You get a brownie point, woo hoo!
The point is in every group, even in the slacker baggy pants olympics there are going to be rules that are enforced legally, economically or just socially. So this notion that "all rules are bad becuase they're rules, woo hoo!" is or the "Argument" of "get off my lawn" (i.e., this is an "old person" notions of rules are inherently silly") are belied in practice by the same people who take that silly position.
Go ahead slackers, you want to get rich off your cool idea? You will soon be ardently enforcing rules about LLC's, property and intellectual property dudes. You want a baggy pants slacker Olympics? I guarantee you will want that stadium dude who promised to rent you the stadium for Jan. 5th to fucking adhere to his fucking contract.
The response that equates my point with advocacy of any particular rules is a straw man. As for the alleged baggy slacker Olympics, um, okay, if you say so, they started one and it caused the other olympics to take up boarding, but then the boarder agreed to the rules of the real olympics, so we're back to the main point which is this pretence of all rules are silly is both wrong and hypocritical and reflects unaware childish naivete.
You don't like the rule about acting a certain way in public? don't agree to it dude.
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@20 You're right, if people don't like the rules they don't have to play.
I still don't understand what is wrong with the picture. Show me the rule that forbids this behavior.
My point just is that this kind of behavior has always gone on and I bet if Mr. President Olympic Committee guy or any of the other committee people saw this occur in their person they would have looked the other way, because it's no big deal. However, because this appeared on TMZ and they feel publically shamed, they would rather make a scapegoat of this olympic hero than to admit that they might need to reconsider their rules in an age where society doesn't match their prudishness.
Hoorah Olympic dude!
I still don't understand what is wrong with the picture. Show me the rule that forbids this behavior.
My point just is that this kind of behavior has always gone on and I bet if Mr. President Olympic Committee guy or any of the other committee people saw this occur in their person they would have looked the other way, because it's no big deal. However, because this appeared on TMZ and they feel publically shamed, they would rather make a scapegoat of this olympic hero than to admit that they might need to reconsider their rules in an age where society doesn't match their prudishness.
Hoorah Olympic dude!
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@22, quite so. Those Russians should be dropped out of an airplane over the ocean for what they made me look at and listen to.
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Sorry Dan but I think you're dead wrong on this one.
Lago "signed up to be a cultural ambassador" along with his fellow American Olympians. It's not unreasonable to expect reasonable behavior from the athletes while in public.
As you pointed out, he could have gotten a bronze job at the Olympic Village without the media glare and public scrutiny and I would bet that having his knob polished in public was covered in the code of conduct handbook.
Lago "signed up to be a cultural ambassador" along with his fellow American Olympians. It's not unreasonable to expect reasonable behavior from the athletes while in public.
As you pointed out, he could have gotten a bronze job at the Olympic Village without the media glare and public scrutiny and I would bet that having his knob polished in public was covered in the code of conduct handbook.
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He was having fun and got carried away. The people that report this as being sensational and soooo wrong are the ones that go to church every Sunday and ask for forgiveness for being rotten the rest of the week. Leave him alone. It must be so nice to be perfect..... bet some of those Olympic officials have a few pictures in their albums they don't want made public, hypocrits....He's a kid and we all do crazy things when we're kids. He clearly is enjoying his win and he should. People should just stop looking for anyway to bring people done when they work so hard to accomplish something.
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I am proud of the job our cultural ambassador Mr. Lago was doing and saddened that he has been prevented from continuing his fine work in Vancouver.
And you people being all pissed off: Go sip tea in you parlors if you don't like the party.
And you people being all pissed off: Go sip tea in you parlors if you don't like the party.
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@3, if it wasn't the for the X-games "the baggy pants Olympics" that we have Snowboarding in the Olympics at all! It's obvious ploy to draw the unkempt party people into the Olympic culture and recognizing their sport!
It's what they bought they admitted the snowboarding into the Olympics.
And it's been like this for what ... all 20 fucking years of snowboarding culture? I mean, is this anything new? These baggy pants slackers now have day jobs, families, and THEIR kids are not now aspiring to be olympic atheletes.
Fucking baby boomers. Obsessing about bull shit that does NOT affect their family values.
It's what they bought they admitted the snowboarding into the Olympics.
And it's been like this for what ... all 20 fucking years of snowboarding culture? I mean, is this anything new? These baggy pants slackers now have day jobs, families, and THEIR kids are not now aspiring to be olympic atheletes.
Fucking baby boomers. Obsessing about bull shit that does NOT affect their family values.
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way to blow this out of proportion linda. Where is this picture of the snowboarder getting a blowjob in public? Because I sure as hell don't see it. Unless there's a rule forbidding medalists from allowing strangers to kiss their medals, I see absolutely nothing wrong here.
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Sorry about the post ... my sugar is obviously crashing, and it's time for lunch ... my proofing goes to TOTAL shit.
To think that partying and good times of our youth has been the scourge of proper decorum and the death of society.
One more thing @3, Can I use your AARP card to wipe my ass? I see the future, you're taxes will go down, but my taxes will go up to save YOUR social security. While you refuse to retire, and I can't a damn job. While you had all the sex and drugs in your youth, but no internet and camera phones to turn everything you say and do into a public with hunt.
To think that partying and good times of our youth has been the scourge of proper decorum and the death of society.
One more thing @3, Can I use your AARP card to wipe my ass? I see the future, you're taxes will go down, but my taxes will go up to save YOUR social security. While you refuse to retire, and I can't a damn job. While you had all the sex and drugs in your youth, but no internet and camera phones to turn everything you say and do into a public with hunt.
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I think this post begs a follow up question, one similar to the Oscar question posted a couple days ago, in "in what ways or in which orifice has an Olympic medal been used during sex", and yeah, it's a bullshit call by the Olympic committee, but Lago has now become a saint in the snowboarding community and he will be laughing all the way to the bank on this.
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I totally agree with Dan and most of the commenters who say that he's young and was having fun and he got carried away, etc, etc, etc. And if he was set up, shame on them whoever they are.
But that doesn't change the fact that he signed up for this and should therefore be expected to follow the rules. Is he being held up to a higher standard than others? Who knows? If he is, there should be evidence and personal knowledge of others behaving similarly and that could have and should have been used in his favor before things got to this point. I would have at least expected his coaches to plead his case with the US Olympic committee.
Yes, I too was young and crazy and acted stupidly on any number of occasions. I'm on Lago's side to a point, I just don't agree that his conduct should be simply dismissed without consequence.
But that doesn't change the fact that he signed up for this and should therefore be expected to follow the rules. Is he being held up to a higher standard than others? Who knows? If he is, there should be evidence and personal knowledge of others behaving similarly and that could have and should have been used in his favor before things got to this point. I would have at least expected his coaches to plead his case with the US Olympic committee.
Yes, I too was young and crazy and acted stupidly on any number of occasions. I'm on Lago's side to a point, I just don't agree that his conduct should be simply dismissed without consequence.
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If this picture is anything, it's good advertising for the event. This kid should be getting royalties.
But Dan is right, snowboarders don't have to take this shit. The Olympics are pretty much about snowboarding and figure skating - everything else is filler.
But Dan is right, snowboarders don't have to take this shit. The Olympics are pretty much about snowboarding and figure skating - everything else is filler.
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Seriously, he should just run for President. That way he could get his blowjobs in the Oval Office like all the rest of them.
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Dan,
I agree with you. "Cultural Ambassadors" my arse.
I've read the athletes are party animals. And, who could blame them? Especially after they win a medal.
One difference though. I'd rather kiss her "abs" and maybe a few other things:)
I agree with you. "Cultural Ambassadors" my arse.
I've read the athletes are party animals. And, who could blame them? Especially after they win a medal.
One difference though. I'd rather kiss her "abs" and maybe a few other things:)
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Yeah - train your ass off, go to the Olympics, win a medal, but don't have fun or celebrate when you do so well what you came to do so well.
There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of Puritanism, and that is the impulse to punish the man with a superior capacity for happiness — to bring him down to the miserable level of “good” men, i.e., of stupid, cowardly, and chronically unhappy men. H. L. Mencken
There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of Puritanism, and that is the impulse to punish the man with a superior capacity for happiness — to bring him down to the miserable level of “good” men, i.e., of stupid, cowardly, and chronically unhappy men. H. L. Mencken
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@ 19,
I don't have a problem with people choosing to be sluts (slut = a person who chooses to have sex with many different people). All power to them, as long as they're being honest and responsible with their partners. But I do have a problem with using that word to describe people who, as far as we know, didn't choose that lifestyle. The girl was kissing a medal, we know nothing about her sexual behavior. For all we know she could be a virgin saving herself for marriage.
I don't have a problem with people choosing to be sluts (slut = a person who chooses to have sex with many different people). All power to them, as long as they're being honest and responsible with their partners. But I do have a problem with using that word to describe people who, as far as we know, didn't choose that lifestyle. The girl was kissing a medal, we know nothing about her sexual behavior. For all we know she could be a virgin saving herself for marriage.
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On one hand, I hate authority and being told what I can and cannot do.
On the other hand, I hate dumbass Americans who go to other countries and act like it's MTV Spring Break.
Therefore, both sides can fuck off.
On the other hand, I hate dumbass Americans who go to other countries and act like it's MTV Spring Break.
Therefore, both sides can fuck off.
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The argument I hate most of all that seems to come up during every Olympics is the "role model to the kids" argument.
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Huh. I didn't know the Olympics was just "snowboarding, figure skating, and filler." Maybe to Americans?
I'm sure the rest of the world is glued to speedskating, bobsleigh, luge, skeleton, ski jumping, HOCKEY, curling -- the sports *they* excel in. I mean, fuck, how do you NOT enjoy speedskating? It's a footrace with KNIVES.
Actually, I've basically followed/watched everything except figure skating and the longer events (e.g. biathlon, which nobody really "watches" anyway).
If we're going to only talk about the American market, it's pretty clear American networks don't think much of the Olympics anyway, tape-delaying the hell out of it.
I'm sure the rest of the world is glued to speedskating, bobsleigh, luge, skeleton, ski jumping, HOCKEY, curling -- the sports *they* excel in. I mean, fuck, how do you NOT enjoy speedskating? It's a footrace with KNIVES.
Actually, I've basically followed/watched everything except figure skating and the longer events (e.g. biathlon, which nobody really "watches" anyway).
If we're going to only talk about the American market, it's pretty clear American networks don't think much of the Olympics anyway, tape-delaying the hell out of it.
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"The snowboarders are the biggest draw at the Winter Olympics and they should've taken a stand in defense of their teammate, in defense of flirting, and in defense of—for lack of a better term—"snowboard culture," which is all about having fun."
News flash -- people who are 'all about having fun' can be just as afraid to stand up for their fellow man as anyone else. I'm not sure why you expect these guys to be better people just because they act like frat boys in their off-time.
News flash -- people who are 'all about having fun' can be just as afraid to stand up for their fellow man as anyone else. I'm not sure why you expect these guys to be better people just because they act like frat boys in their off-time.
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@46: Yeah, it's not just Americans. In Canada, we've got MuchMusic (MTV equivalent) covering the Olympics by hosting hot tub interviews and stripping contests.
Anyway, on one hand, asking this dude to leave is overreaction. Oh no, suggestive photos. Whatever.
On the other, yeah, you're participating in an international event, and yes, you are representing your country. Try harder.
Please also note that the IOC didn't ask this guy to leave -- the AMERICAN Olympic Committee did. No "old guys running the Olympics" here.
Anyway, on one hand, asking this dude to leave is overreaction. Oh no, suggestive photos. Whatever.
On the other, yeah, you're participating in an international event, and yes, you are representing your country. Try harder.
Please also note that the IOC didn't ask this guy to leave -- the AMERICAN Olympic Committee did. No "old guys running the Olympics" here.
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@36 Bingo! He left because how much higher could his profile get? (Did he have any other events to compete in?)
@39 Figure skating and snowboarding are filler for Curling (even if the US men's team did break my heart this year with their choketastic performance).
@39 Figure skating and snowboarding are filler for Curling (even if the US men's team did break my heart this year with their choketastic performance).
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Gloria, there are people like me (HOCKEY fans like me) who don't bother watching men's hockey, because it's just NHL and Russian professional league players anyway.
Also, people were just talking about the snowboarder and comparing his racy-ness to that of the skaters. Curling got big in the US this year, and I was watching men's downhill with bated breath hoping for Bode to choke.
Also, people were just talking about the snowboarder and comparing his racy-ness to that of the skaters. Curling got big in the US this year, and I was watching men's downhill with bated breath hoping for Bode to choke.
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"a good-time gal asked to kiss his medal, Lago slung it around his waist"
It looks like she is holding the medal, you can see the blue ribbon dangling below the medal in the first picture and it's in the other photo as well. That ribbon is not around his waist, right? So what is holding it there? Her left hand. I think this changes the story a bit, the way you wrote it kinda makes the guy sound like a jerk. "Sure babe, you can kiss my medal, but you gotta do it down here, har har har." Doesn't look to me that is what happened.
It looks like she is holding the medal, you can see the blue ribbon dangling below the medal in the first picture and it's in the other photo as well. That ribbon is not around his waist, right? So what is holding it there? Her left hand. I think this changes the story a bit, the way you wrote it kinda makes the guy sound like a jerk. "Sure babe, you can kiss my medal, but you gotta do it down here, har har har." Doesn't look to me that is what happened.
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@55: I bother to watch it because otherwise I'm stuck cheering for the Leafs. I can't describe how nice it is to back a team without expecting it to implode.
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To the US Olympic Committee: before you start passing judgement just let say....Salt Lake City...The US Olympic Committee...hookers...
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Did any of you read the links to the rest of the story?
The IOC did not ask him to leave. The USOC committee did NOT ask him to leave either.
He made the decision to leave on his own accord BEFORE they even took the issue up, because he didn't want it to overshadow anything else, and he didn't want it to become an issue. He knew he'd f*cked up, even though the rules were silly. So you can all stop getting your panties in a wad about the Olympic committee telling him what to do. They didn't.
He knew he violated the "code of conduct" that he'd signed up to. Is it ridiculous? Yes, I think so too. But I didn't make the rules; and he did agree to it.
The IOC did not ask him to leave. The USOC committee did NOT ask him to leave either.
He made the decision to leave on his own accord BEFORE they even took the issue up, because he didn't want it to overshadow anything else, and he didn't want it to become an issue. He knew he'd f*cked up, even though the rules were silly. So you can all stop getting your panties in a wad about the Olympic committee telling him what to do. They didn't.
He knew he violated the "code of conduct" that he'd signed up to. Is it ridiculous? Yes, I think so too. But I didn't make the rules; and he did agree to it.
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Hey @ 40, "run for the oval office"...? you may not be too far off the mark. Sounds a bit like controversy with another snowboarder, Ross Rebagliati, the Canadian who won the first ever gold in snowboading when the sport was introduced in Nagano '98 Olympics (and who has an awesome run named after him on Blackcombe called "Ross' Gold"). He originally had his medal stripped due to THC traces in his blood in testing at Nagano. But the medal was reinstated when the IOC accepted his defense that he was at a pre-olympics send off party, in Whistler, where he must have inhaled some second hand weed smoke. (You might also recall he made a funny appearance on Letterman with Letterman ribbing him about having the munchies and handing him a bag of Doritos). I recall recently he was in the news regarding running for public office (MLA or MP not sure) - will probably end up on Parliament Hill!
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Hey, that girl is being relatively modest. I guess you guys wouldn't have paid attention but there was a big deal in Calgary when Prince Harry was out at a bar. It had something to do with some chick in a thong, don't remember the details...
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I couldn't get through all 60 posts so sorry if someone already said it but as far as the "cultural ambassador" aspect; how could anyone possibly act more American than Scotty Lago is acting in these photos? Our culture is a culture that celebrates champions, coolness, precious metal, extreme shit, intoxication, abs, and yes even and especially 'sluts' simulating fellatio. Scotty went above and beyond in his duty as a cultural ambassador and he deserves a hero's welcome home.
The olympics are supposed to be a celebration of multiculturalism and all Americans should be up in arms about this insult to our beloved culture.
The olympics are supposed to be a celebration of multiculturalism and all Americans should be up in arms about this insult to our beloved culture.
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how can you be. "pressured by a canadian slut to kiss your medal..." well lets think about this, the guy is young, he is about to be banging every girl he could get his hands on in canada, for winning that bronze that is. Generally that would be the motive of a snowboarder, skater, you name it high action sports idols get the ladies, thats why this picture was even takin in the first place.
I guess we can just blame the canada spy that tried.. wait no.. Successfully got him booted!
kudos for the guy who pointed out that the medal ISNT actually around his waste. so he couldnt have SLUNG it around. or whatever channel 5 news was saying hah!
Look he is smiling in the picture because he wasnt expecting the girl to do that those are probably her friends next to her," hey im gonna go up to scott lago take a picture with his medal, then when she was in the moment, oh! i think it would be funny to do this type of pic can you please lift your shirt scott!
UP THE IRONS ON SCOTTY LAGO!
... and the USA!
I guess we can just blame the canada spy that tried.. wait no.. Successfully got him booted!
kudos for the guy who pointed out that the medal ISNT actually around his waste. so he couldnt have SLUNG it around. or whatever channel 5 news was saying hah!
Look he is smiling in the picture because he wasnt expecting the girl to do that those are probably her friends next to her," hey im gonna go up to scott lago take a picture with his medal, then when she was in the moment, oh! i think it would be funny to do this type of pic can you please lift your shirt scott!
UP THE IRONS ON SCOTTY LAGO!
... and the USA!
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Remember when Olympic athletes weren't entitled douches, and got kicked out for doing something that mattered?
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I have to agree with Dan on this one. Outrage over Lago's admittedly juvenile (but what male in his 20s isn't juvenile, at least some of the time?) photo seems phony in light of 100,000 condoms being shipped into Vancouver. And the woman in the picture appears to be both consenting and of adult age.
I think the USOC has a snowboard wedged up its ass, personally.
I think the USOC has a snowboard wedged up its ass, personally.
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I don't get the concept of "snowboard culture". That's as oxymoronic as "drug culture". And it's dead wrong to claim that snowboarders are the biggest draw at the Olympics. I did a little research on this topic and discovered that 80% of viewership of the winter AND summer Games combined is dedicated to a single event—women's [girls, really] figure skating. And I can see why. You might prefer kissing some snowboarder jerk's abs, but I'll take those figure skating gamines any day!
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