Scotty Lago Racy Pictures Send Him Home From The Olympics

[Liberal_in_LA]

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Scotty Lago Racy Pictures Send Him Home From The Olympics
February 19, 2010 10:16 PM EST (Updated: February 20, 2010 09:45 AM EST)

He only won a bronze medal. One has to wonder what would have happened if he'd won gold. Scotty Lago's racy pictures showed up on the Internet, and that was that. Scotty Lago's pictures have sent him home.



http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20345956,00.html

Olympian Scotty Lago Heads Home After Photo Controversy
By Lorenzo Benet

Saturday February 20, 2010 04:00 PM EST
Scotty Lago

Scotty Lago, winner of the bronze medal in the men's halfpipe snowboarding event Wednesday, voluntarily left the Winter Olympics Friday after risqué photos of a woman kissing and biting the medal surfaced in the media.

The free-spirited Lago, 22, was snapped with his bronze medal around his waist and the hardware hung over his groin area, allowing a woman to kiss it on a public street late Thursday in Vancouver.

[Swede]

1. Dude is just chillaxing.

Let him stay for the party.

[Fumesucker]

2. Kiss my aura, Dora.. n/t

[sendero]

69. You just..

... dated yourself buster :)

[era veteran]

74. Right here on the floor

[TheCowsCameHome]

3. That was pretty stupid.

He wins at the half pipe, she teases his whole pipe.

[pokerfan]

28. You should see what the gold medal winners get

[naaman fletcher]

4. whats the problem?

Good for him.

[ChimpersMcSmirkers]

86. No kidding. She's a cutie.

Anyone that has a problem with this has other problems that are bigger.

[DRoseDARs]

5. YAY FAUXRAGE!!1 NO MORE TIGER WOODS!1! Wait, what? Tiger slept with that chick to?!

[bluestateguy]

6. How many more days of the fake Olympics?

They are just eating valuable prime time network time.

[Mugweed]

7. Uptight people suck

I don't see anything wrong here. He's a f***ing snowboarder, not a dignitary.

[Edweird]

8. Manufactured controversy. Lame.

[xchrom]

9. I know 'racy' -- that ain't it. How STUPID to make

Anything of that.

[WillyT]

11. I Couldn't Agree More...

And if you read this, it becomes even more of a travesty...

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/19/sports/olympics/19lago.html

:banghead:

[kestrel91316]

10. Dumbass needs to pull his pants up over his ass.

[KonaKane]

12. Good Christ, when did the puritans take over?

Seriously.

[NashVegas]

46. When Did People Behaving Like 9 Year Olds Become Rule-Makers?

[KonaKane]

50. I don't know many 9 year olds who won bronze medals at the Olympics

Lighten up a little.

[NashVegas]

58. And Acting Like a 9 Year Old Is Why He Was Sent Home

Getting it?

No?

I lay it out: there are enough of us still alive who think acting like a fucking idiot in public is enough to disqualify a person from representing our country at the Olympic games. And we still overrule people who can't quite pull their head out of their ass just yet.

[KonaKane]

64. I don't know many 9 year olds who do that, either.

I know plenty of older folks who do, though. Even when they are just having a good time, which is what he was clearly doing in the photo.

Perhaps we should just fasten these nasty athletes with chastity belts and chaperones. That'll learn em!

[BK101]

13. What about the Women

I think I saw a bunch of the women in Sport Illustrated posing, that was not racy?

[Yurovsky]

14. Sweet baby jesus the Robertsons need to STFU...

and let a kid have a good time. He's not doing drugs, or fighting, or desecrating the precious flag.

Complete bullshit. Cut the kid some damn slack.

[omega minimo]

15. Olypmic tradition don't do Jackass

[neverforget]

16. Oh GOD! My life is forever ruined seeing that! Please save me from

this! Whatever will I do? :sarcasm:

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

27. Oh my! Take me to the fainting couch and pass the smelling salts.

:rofl:

[EFerrari]

17. He's 22, for pete's sake. His brain isn't even finish maturing yet.

He probably doesn't even know his Social Security number yet.

[RB TexLa]

18. They give 100,000 condoms to the athletes but get mad about pictures of them having fun?

:crazy:

[Forkboy]

19. I'm pretty sure I've done racier things than this.

We'd have to ask the other witnesses of course, but I feel confident in this...

[JackRiddler]

20. I guess we're still in fucking Salem, MA.

[theHandpuppet]

53. Yeah, I guess it IS too much to ask...

...that our Olympic athletes not pass out faux blowjobs on the streets of Vancouver as if they're staring in a "Girls Gone Wild" video. Jeeze, we surely have set the bar pretty low these days.

[JackRiddler]

61. They're not "your" Olympic athletes.

Or did you help finance their appearance?

People party and they have a fun time. It's always been so. This one did nothing and has nothing to apologize for, although I'm sure your junior mullahs are going to press a statement out of him, as they did with Tiger Woods.

Today, after decades of all of our institutions failing around us, we live in a culture on a permanent and arbitrary witchhunt, always looking for the next moment of outrage, which is always to be directed at supposed failings of personal behavior that, generally, are none of our fucking business. I don't care who Tiger Woods fucked around with and I shouldn't have to see a country stop all business to pretend it matters.

This is a form of the two minutes hate, and its target shifts from day to day. For some Tiger Woods is supposed to become a symbol of how bad America has gotten, for others he provides reassurance that they are different, a chance to feel superior to one of the godly celebrities with whose lives we are supposed to fill the gaping hole in our own.

[theHandpuppet]

70. I don't give a rat's ass about Tiger Woods

Nor do I care what celebratory antics Scotty Lago chooses for himself before or after the Olympics. But while he's there I don't feel it's too much to ask that he at least fake some modicum of respect and maturity. Whether you like it or not, he chose to be a representative of our nation's athletes. If that opinion makes me a "junior mullah", so be it.

[anonymous171]

77. They have my fucking flag on them. They are chatered by the US government

I'll say what I want about them.

[JackRiddler]

81. "Chatered" by the US govt, are they? That's pure Chatter...

The US Olympic Team is privately financed.

YOU have no claims on its members, other than to expect they train right and do their best at the sport they play. (Anything else would be fraud on their part.)

You don't own their off hours. You don't get to dictate their (non-criminal) behaviors, limit their statements, censor their beliefs, or say whether they get to raise fists on the podium. And if you think any of that reflects on you or "your flag" or "your" country, that's your own sad fate. No one else should have to be punished for your limits.





(Proper disposal of the flag, according to some Boy Scout manual I remember from my youth.)

[anonymous171]

83. Comparing Smith and Carlos's defiant show of solidarity to Lago's frat boy antics is just stupid

Not to mention incredibly offensive. Seriously. Get some perspective.

[JackRiddler]

87. I didn't compare THEM to Lago - I'm saying your reaction is as hysterical as white folks' were...

back in 1968 when they saw that and acted as though the world was ending.

Smith and Carlos paid a career price because of that hysteria, not for their simple free expression of opinion. The moral hysteria is the constant here.

[anonymous171]

88. OH NOES MORAL HYSTERIA! Moralists were responsible for the Civil Rights movement

Libertarians and other amoralists were supporting the "states' rights movement." As I said before, you need to get some perspective.

[JackRiddler]

90. No, people who refused to wait for their freedom and started using it were responsible for that.

In other words, the exact opposite of what you imagine. It wasn't about hand-wringing, it was about action.

Anyway, I'm not going to play your game of false dichotomies ("amoralists" vs. "moralists" as it happens to play out in whatever unreal definitions you have in your head, and next stop I'm Barry Goldwater or whatever).

We already know more than enough about you from the mere fact that you think it's your business when some kid in a distant city celebrating on his own time flashes his medal at a bar as though it was his dick.

In that moment the only one doing anything objectionable or worthy of public discussion is the papparazzo who took the pictures.

As your physician I recommend therapy.

[laughingliberal]

113. My family was involved in the civil rights movement pretty heavily

I don't recall a lot of 'moralists' in our midst. There were quite a few of the clergy from the social justice wing of the Catholic church around but they were not of the uptight, prudish variety.

[laughingliberal]

112. +1 nt

[GoneOffShore]

100. They're corporate shills - And the Olympics - bread and circuses

See through the bullshit of the shamateurs and stop watching the Olympic nonsense.

[Rabrrrrrr]

21. Why are those pictures even an issue? Fucking hell, who cares?!

So he had some hot chick kiss his medal.

Whoopty fucking do.

We send a kid home for doing this, but yet, somehow, no one finds it morally scandalous that Republicans continue to insist that people go without healthcare, food, or shelter.

[Shell Beau]

22. Certainly not in the best of taste, but to send him home for that?

Nothing illegal is happening. It is tacky, no doubt. No reason to be sent home.

[varelse]

23. Our puritan roots

will we ever outgrow them? :/

[liquid diamond]

110. Spare me. He probably could have banged this skank in private.

Fine. I have no issue with that. Why do something like this in public?

[OwnedByFerrets]

24. America is too fucking uptight. Sheesh.

[Tabasco_Dave]

25. I remember when swimmer Amy Van Dyken

spit in the pool lane of her competitor in the Sydney olympics and she didn't get sent home.

[proteus_lives]

26. Act like an asshole, get punished.

He should have been sent home.

[WillyT]

31. You Must Have Been A Real Bucket Of Yucks When You Were 22

:boring:

[proteus_lives]

33. I believed then what I believe now.

"There's a time and place..."

He should have saved the acting out for back home.

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[naaman fletcher]

51. If we ever meet at a protest or an event,

Remind me that you are no fun right up front, so I don't have to waste any time figuring it out. Not that it would take very long.

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[theHandpuppet]

52. I realize you're in the minority on this issue

But you can make that a minority of two because I agree with you.

[Obamanaut]

72. And now three. That was not appropriate behavior. n/t

[SoxFan]

56. I'm from "back home"

I grew up two towns over from Scotty Lago. I was a wound-up 22 year old once, and I think this whole thing is overblown nonsense. People need to chill out.

[closeupready]

122. Maybe that WAS the time and place - people that age start/stop relationships at will.

Maybe the problem here is the camera?

[theHandpuppet]

49. He obviously mistook the Olympics...

... for the latest taping of "Girls Gone Wild". Act like a dumb jackass, get sent home. Pretty simple if you ask me.

[proteus_lives]

55. Apparently we're prudes because we wouldn't receive an medal and then shit all over it.

I guess we're two crazy-boring Puritans. ;-)

[KonaKane]

59. So kissing an olympic medal is "shitting all over it"?

Wow, you might be right. Look at all these digusting shitters...

Isabela Fernandez, shit all over her medal for Judo in the 1996 olympics by kissing it.

Oh, and Ruholla Nikpai shitting all over his medal won at the Beijing Olypmics


And who can forget that awful Jim Shea, shitting all over his gold medal won at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah?


Kelly Holmes, why did you shit all over your gold medal you won at the Athens Olympics??

Bradley Wiggins, not to be outdone, also shit on his gold medal from the same Olympics.


Thank God I finally understand the issue here.

[NashVegas]

60. Oh, Cut the Bullshit

The photos you've posted are in an entirely different context and don't come anywhere near the inappropriate behavior in the OP pictures.

The guy is representing his country at an international event with world-wide attention. We don't expect any of them to behave like the frigging queen, but something other than Daytona Beach on spring break would do.

[KonaKane]

63. So athletes are not allowed to be human. Wow.

Good luck with that one.

[Obamanaut]

71. But perish the thought one of them puts a reference to a bible verse

on his face for a ball game. Check out the outrage here then.

[KonaKane]

84. Where the hell did THAT come from?

Wow, that is psychologically intriguing on so many levels.

[Obamanaut]

98. The outrage here when Tim Tebow appeared with the black under

his eyes had scripture references. Some athletes have "hi mom" or "I heart you" or something similar, Tebow had such things as John 3:16. Oh the outrage.

But another athlete, a high level jock in the public eye, does something that many (even the Olympics officials) consider inappropriate, well, that's just a high spirited 22 year old child having fun.

Each one expressing himself, but in different ways. One acceptable to DU, the other not. Both about the same age. Some inconsistency here on those "...psychologically intriguing on so many levels..." don't you think?

[KonaKane]

105. Sorry, but I didn't know who Tim Tebow is. Nor care, if its about football.

But that being said, arent you really wearing your moral outrage on your sleeve there, pard?

[WillyT]

107. That's Because, According To Olympic Rules...

and common sense, quoting bible verses on one's cheek is inversely proportional to one's getting laid at the Olympics.

Whereas painting "Hi Mom" on one's cheeks is considered cute and adorable and tends to attract medal kissers, bible quotes tend to have the opposite effect and are generally indicative of one's spending waaaaay to much time pleasing mom.

That is all.

:evilgrin:

[laughingliberal]

116. An extension of the war on Christmas, I think. nt

[KonaKane]

126. I thought it had a Bill O'Reilly ring to it....thanks.

[Arkana]

75. Say, did you hear that Michael Phelps fellow smokes marijuana?

Personally, I believe he should never be allowed to compete again.

[anonymous171]

79. Did he smoke it at Beijing with a golden bong made out of melted down gold metals?

[Arkana]

80. No, but if he had it would be the greatest Olympic troll of all time.

[laughingliberal]

117. We don't know. We don't have a picture of it if he did. nt

[WillyT]

68. And You Must Be Really Young... (Remember The 70's & 80's ???)

I doubt you do, and I doubt much has changed...

If you had any idea how many Olympians have felt "The Love" of their country, and many foreigners, after winning medals, your Knickerbockers would truly be in a twist!

Grow up... understand how life works...

:wtf:

[NashVegas]

108. How Many Of Them

Had to publish the love for the whole world?

[WillyT]

115. Different Day...It's A Brave New World Now...

Any schmuck with a camera can make you world famous/infamous in an instant.

People are having to rethink their being involved with Facebook and MySpace because of privacy issues. Especially now that it's come out that Human Resources departments are including these sites in their background checks of prospective employees.

Plus... who's to say HE published them?

More like an adoring fan, eh???

:shrug:

[NashVegas]

134. That's YOUR Choice

Lago didn't get famous because someone put a camera in front of his face. Lago got famous because he sought to represent a nation at the Olympic games.

[theHandpuppet]

73. Don't you know that the whole notion of respect is so yesterday

Those us who still believe in such antiquated notions are "junior mullahs".

[anonymous171]

78. Yeah. Also we need to remember that he isn't "our" athlete

He just plays for Team USA and represents us. :crazy:

[KonaKane]

85. Your nation owns you? Are you sure about that?

That's a disturbing comment.

[proteus_lives]

97. Yeah, because those pictures are the same as the sexual one above.

Don't be so dishonest.

[KonaKane]

99. Sorry, churchmaster, allow me to self flagellate for awhile to correct my error.

And never think thoughts of the flesh again.

[proteus_lives]

101. You got caught.

Deal with it.

A people doesn't have to be a "churchmaster" to be aware of intellectual dishonesty.

[KonaKane]

104. Hey, nobody kissed my medal! And there are no pics to prove it!

.

[laughingliberal]

ROFL!! nt

[liquid diamond]

111. For crying out loud, that woman suggested giving him

fellatio in the street. For all those claiming we are uptight and puritans, I ask is this proper behavior in the middle of the street? Seriously? That wasn't just about kissing a medal. If it were around his neck, this wouldn't be an issue.

[KonaKane]

118. Where did you read that? It's not in the article.

You aren't just doing some creative guessing, are you?

[liquid diamond]

120. A picture is worth a thousand words.

She is bent over with her face inches from his crotch. Is that enough for you?

[KonaKane]

125. So in other words, you made it up.

Gotcha.

[JackRiddler]

62. So how have you managed to evade it?

[proteus_lives]

102. Not taken my medal out skank-hunting.

And realized as a quasi-famous athlete at a televised sporting event, someone might take a picture of me.

[JackRiddler]

123. Whoosh.

[Quantess]

29. Extreme uptightness.

I am underwhelmed by the photos. Yawn.

Anyone who thinks that's risque is a self-righteous bore.

[Johonny]

30. wow that's almost interesting

seriously the women skiers are kissing and hugging their hubbies and boyfriends and I'm suppose to get worked up because a male athlete found someone to kiss his medal? What did people do before boring internet photo's gave them a life?

[LeftyMom]

32. I did five things that were racier than that before breakfast. And I'm old and boring.

:boring:

[JackRiddler]

82. You're my kind of Lefty Mom!

[me b zola]

130. +!

[certainot]

34. lucky aussies, they got convicts, we got puritans

shit

[laughingliberal]

129. +1000 nt

[omega minimo]

35. Thank FSM for mob rule, frat boy dumbshits and the complete lack of respect for tradition

[bertman]

36. Fucking Puritan PRICKS and the ever-present camera. I'm sending him a thank you note

for being so freaking gracious to his teammates who couldn't be there with him. A 22 year-old having harmless fun gets busted by the Jesus Police.

There's a prude streak a mile wide right down the middle of this fucking nation. SCREW YOU PURITAN FASCIST BASTARDS!!!





:mad: :mad:

[bertman]

37. Fucking Puritan PRICKS and the ever-present camera. I'm sending him a thank you note

for being so freaking gracious to his teammates who couldn't be there with him. A 22 year-old having harmless fun gets busted by the Jesus Police.

There's a prude streak a mile wide right down the middle of this fucking nation. SCREW YOU PURITAN FASCIST BASTARDS!!!


:mad: :mad:

[tango-tee]

38. Good grief.

I'm an old fuddy-duddy at 57 years old, but fail to see what's racy or controversial in this.

[leftstreet]

39. Have any of the female medalists had boys kissing their groin/medals?

:shrug:

[KonaKane]

114. If they haven't, they should.

Just so some of the puritans here would go into complete meltdown.

[upi402]

40. Back to Jesusland for you sonny!

meh
Too bad.

[TexasObserver]

41. Big Fucking Deal.

The capacity of some to find outrage in normal life is appalling.

A kid wins a medal, and acts goofy with a fan, but there's nothing in the conduct which requires any remonstration beyond a backstage whisper of "hey, dude, probably shouldn't do that."

[TheWatcher]

43. But if he was engaging in Torture of "enemy combatants", he would have gotten The Medal Of Freedom.

What a country!

:crazy:

[cali]

44. lol can't do it can you?

yes, yes. let's compare every actor, athlete and school child to CIA agents.

ridiculous.

pathetic.

[freeplessinseattle]

45. It looks like she's bending down to read his tattoo

while she held the medal in her hand out of view (I can't figure out how she could hold it in her teeth, unless they're exceptionally strong). so she probably has it in her other hand, then decided to check out his tattoo. It's not like it was attached to his groin or she was indicating something lewd, IMHO-just bad timing, bad angle...no matter, the officials probably didn't like the casual handling of the medal, the image tainted, blah de blah.

[opihimoimoi]

57. risque nazi cops going overboard....Puritanical Fever has struck once more

[CBR]

65. Is this a big deal? Really? If I won a bronze medal I would be

partying my ass off... for days!!!

[me b zola]

66. As a feminist I have to ask

What is the BFD? :shrug:

The guy is having fun as he should be at that age.

[KonaKane]

128. No, see, fun leads to everlasting hell fire.

Or so I was told by a preacher, once....

[Yavin4]

67. The Real Story Is That Olympic Villages Are Hotbeds of Wild Sex

Former Olympian Matthew Syed, who now works as a commentator, wrote for the Times of London, "This sex fest ... right here in Beijing. Olympic athletes have to display an unnatural ... level of self-discipline in the build-up to big competitions. How else is this going to manifest itself than with a volcanic release of pent-up hedonism?"

Syed said that winners "as geeky as Michael Phelps" were sought after by the female athletes, but that losers get their share as well.

Matthew says he "got laid more often in those two and a half weeks (at the Barcelona games in '92) than the rest of my life up to that point." And he was freakin' table tennis player!

http://www.tmz.com/2008/08/24/olympic-village-more-sex-than-woodstock/

Barcelona was, for many of us Olympic virgins, as much about sex as it was about sport. There were the gorgeous hostesses - there to assist the athletes - in their bright yellow shirts and black skirts; there were the indigenous lovelies who came to watch the competitions. And then there were the female athletes - literally thousands of them - strutting, shimmying, sashaying and jogging around the village, clad in Lycra and exposing yard upon yard of shiny, toned, rippling and unimaginably exotic flesh. Women from all the countries of the world: muscular, virile, athletic and oozing oestrogen. I spent so much time in a state of lust that I could have passed out. Indeed, for all I knew I did pass out - in a place like that how was one to tell the difference between dreamland and reality?

It was not just the guys. The women, too, seemed in thrall to their hormones, throwing around daring glances and dynamite smiles like confetti. No meal or coffee break was complete without a breathless conversation with a lithe long jumper from Cuba or an Amazonian badminton player from Sweden, the mutual longing so evident it was almost comical. It was an effort of will to keep everything in check until competition had finished. But, once we were eliminated from our respective competitions, we lunged at each other like suicidal fencers. There may have been a fair amount of gay sex going on, too - but given the notorious homophobia in sport it was rather more covert.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/olympics/article4582421.ece

[Arkana]

76. BAN THE OLYMPICS

THERE IS EXTRA-MARITAL SEXUAL RELATIONS

[Yavin4]

89. I Say Put The Sex On TV

The sex could be Olympic events. We could judge them on style, technique, speed, etc.

[rucky]

96. Ratings would quadruple. n/t

[petronius]

106. Combine Big Brother with the Olympic Village? Ratings would skyrocket

:rofl:

[JackRiddler]

91. For Christ's sake, THIS is why they worked so hard to get there in the first place.

Let the kids have their fun in peace, world!

[TorchTheWitch]

92. Really? THAT'S why they worked so hard to get there?

So they could hang their medal over their dick and have some cute girl on the street bend down to publically kiss it?

Huh. I thought all that work had something to do with sportmanship, competition and striving to be the best athlete in their particular sport. Who knew it was all about having the general public witness them getting cute girls to put their face that close to their dicks.

[JackRiddler]

94. The general public witnessed it?

Did he put this show on at the podium?

Some pervert papparazzo took pictures of a trivial bit of partying and sent it out on the wires so that pervert puritans can get all excited about it.

[TorchTheWitch]

119. it happened on a public street in Vancouver

That's the general public.

Scotty signed a contract agreeing to abide by the code of conduct in the contract. He violated that code of conduct in his contract that he agreed to, so he has no one to blame but his own self.

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[TheWatcher]

133. CAREFUL now. You are intruding upon the Rose Colored, Sacred American view of things.

ALL Olympians are Virgins and are at LEAST three lengths apart at ALL times.

Please stop spreading your hedonistic lies!!!!11111111

FOUL!!!!!!!!11111111111 DARKSIDED!!!!!!!!111111111111

[TwilightGardener]

93. "Free-spirited"...or what I like to call "Immature Jackass".

[noamnety]

95. How in the hell does he get sent home for this

when the US standard for behavior is our president smacking the asses of our volleyball players?

[closeupready]

127. Or giving Angela Merkel a backrub

[KonaKane]

131. This is the same twisted American fixation that Tiger Woods touched off

That is, that athletes have to somehow be these saintly, way above human creatures who never pass gas, say a naughty word or have fun at a party after a win. No, they are "role models" for children now.

Gods, you have got to be kidding me.

[anonymous171]

132. Fuck American's and their support of honest monogamy. This is same thing that brought down Edwards.

[L0oniX]

103. So I guess they are lucky to not get sent home for having tats ...that'll be next!

[liquid diamond]

109. He brought it on himself.

Didn't he notice the camera right in front of him? That's no way to represent our country. Yes, whether you like it or not, as an Olympic athlete, he represents the U.S. Nice "TEAM USA" shirt dummy.

[closeupready]

124. Fingerwaggers, UNITE!

:rant: :mad: :mad: :mad: :rant:

:sarcasm: :rofl:

[indy legend]

135. cue the phony right wing outrage in 3-2-1-

[varelse]

136. Heh

not all of the outrage is coming from the right wing :P