In the Vancouver 2010 olympics, bronze medalist Scott Lago in the snowboarding halfpipe competition volunteered to leave the olympics after the pictures, shown above, were released on the TMZ.com website. He was not entered in any events the following day. U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association President and CEO Bill Marolt said that Lago needs to keep a "responsibility of proper conduct and his involvement in this situation is not acceptable". However Lago is not the first olympian to be in a situation such as this. In the previous years there have been a few athletes that have not meet the expectations of the USOC that monitors the athletes on and off competitions.
Do I believe that the olympics needs to keep order to the athletes? yes. But there needs to be specific details regarding what is and what is not acceptable for the athletes to do. I do not believe that these pictures should have lead to Lago having to leave the games. Some say that they are distastefull, and i do agree that to some people they may be offensive. However, I do not beleive they are as bad as they are made to sound by the press. I honestly would not have thought pictures like this would lead to the removal of an athlete from the games. Whoever asked Lago to leave made a mistake.
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