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One of the spoils of winning a medal in the Olympics is that bronze, silver and gold make you measurably better looking.

Scotty Lago did, with his newly earned Bronze Medal, what every right minded twenty year old would...he used it to meet girls. Unfortunately in this age of instant filterless media the United States Olympic Snowboarding "Powers-that-be" decided to send him home for acting in a manner outside the pillars of the Olympic Code of Conduct.

That's insane. I mean isn't that why you learn to snowboard in the first place, to impress girls? Well, that and you can get really good, um, "green products" made from hemp. There's a reason that they give out more condoms during the Olympics than at any single event during the year...that includes Mardi Gras by the way. You can look it up. 

The fact is the pictures were less then appropriate. Using your bronze medal to lure some unsuspecting co-ed into your demilitarized zone is cheesy and disrespectful. Although...were those pictures really any less appropriate than, oh I don't know, say the Russia Pair that danced their way to a Bronze thanks to their spot-on portrayal of African Tribesmen from a Johnny Weissmuller Tarzan movie? Maybe Tanith Belbin would've medaled had she stuck with her Homage to Al Jolson concept.

But was anyone REALLY hurt by the photos? No. Would you think less of the girl in the photo if you knew her? And if you were standing next to her, when you were in college wouldn't you be laughing right along with everyone else? It's harmless.

Look I don't have a problem with the Olympic Committee holding its athletes accountable for their actions but it is difficult to take them seriously when the line between right and wrong is such a moving target. They will absolutely not stand for suggestive pictures of girls biting medals...but NBC can do a full segment on Gretchen Bleiler's Maxim layout.  Give me a break.

Just so we're clear, Scotty Lago is guilty of only one thing...being a 22 year old male.