Top 4 Most Shocking Olympic Sex Scandals

The least well-kept secret in Olympic history is pretty much what a sex-fest the Olympic village turns into after the athletes complete their events. Naturally, scandals abound. So, as the 2014 Olympics rages on, we'd like to take a moment to look back at the top four most shocking sex scandals to plague the Olympics.

The photo seen round the world: When Lindsey Vonn posed for Sports Illustrated, she doubtless thought it was just your average ski-themed photo shoot. Wearing a black and pink skintight suit, her boots and skis, Vonn assumed the usual position for her sport…which just happened to put her rear end on prominent display. The cover caused an uproar right before the 2010 Vancouver games, with people calling the photo too sexy for a respected athlete. The fact that that is the regular skier's crouch that she assumes when she is practicing her sport was largely ignored.

A not so innocent kiss: During the 2010 Winter Olympics, snowboarder Scotty Lago won the bronze on February 17th. On February 19th, scandalous photos of Lago appeared online. In the pictures, Lago wore the medal around his waist while a girl kneeled before him, kissing and biting the medal. Lago decided to volunteer to leave before the IOC could tell him to. He returned home the day after the pictures were taken, and tweeted out the message, "Got home this morning to all my homies. Such a good Olympic experience. Keeping my medal in a safe spot for now haha."

The accidental brothel: When American target shooter Josh Lakatos and his team were asked to vacate their Olympic village housing following the completion of their events in 2000, he wasn't ready to give up. He knew a massive party was about to kick off in the village, and he didn't want to miss a minute of it. Instead, he and some teammates snuck back into a house, provided a duffle bag full of condoms, and got busy. Men and women from around the world passed through. After about a week, Lakatos had a revelation: "I'm running a friggin' brothel in the Olympic Village! I've never witnessed so much debauchery in my entire life."

The real deal: New Zealand taekwondo practitioner Logan Campbell's first time at the Olympics, in 2008, cost him and his parents $150,000. To avoid hitting his family up for money for the 2012 London games (which he estimated would cost $300,000), Campbell got creative: he opened a brothel. Prostitution in an officially registered brothel is legal in New Zealand, but this caused a stir nonetheless. All this came for naught, as Campbell was knocked out in his first fight at the 2012 games.

Top 4 Most Shocking Olympic Sex Scandals

Gold-level naughtiness.

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