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THE TOP 10 SCANDALS OF THE 2010 OLYMPIC GAMES

1) GOLD: The porn-watching skier

Running away with the gold medal for risque behaviour Norwegian cross-country skier Odd-Bjoern Hjelmeset tops the list of gaffes for blaming a bad ski run that cost him the gold medal on watching too much porn. 'My name is Odd-Bjoern Hjelmeset,' he said. 'I skied the second lap and I ****** up today. I think I have seen too much porn in the last 14 days.

2) SILVER: The smutty snowboarder

U.S. snowboarder Scotty Lago was sent home before the closing ceremony after racy photographs surfaced showing a woman kissing his bronze medal near his waist.
'Keeping my medal in a safe spot for now, ha ha,' Lago tweeted when he got home.

3) BRONZE: The topless curling star

There were further red faces when rather racy pictures of Germany's curler Melanie Robillard emerged just in time for the Games.
Robillard had taken part in the shoot to raise money for local ice rinks in her area but has declared that she won't be posing up again any time in the near future.
'I've been asked and I refused. Once is good. The first time was extremely blown out of proportion and I'd

4) Olympic athletes get through almost 100,000 condoms (that's 14 per PERSON)

Hjelmeset's next-door neighbour was not the only one who made the most of his downtime in the Olympic Village. Health officials well-versed in the needs of the world's elite athletes had already provided 100,000 free condoms to 7,000 athletes and officials, which works out about 14 condoms per person. But apparently this just wasn't enough. With just a couple of days to go officials were forced to ship in an emergency supply of condoms after supplies ran dangerously low during the last week of the Games.

5) US bobsleigher arrested for assault

US bobsleigher Bill Schuffenhauer was arrested over an alleged assault
American bobsledder Bill Schuffenhauer was competing two days after he was detained by Canadian police following an argument with his fiancee.
Royal Canadian Mounted Police said an unnamed man was arrested on Wednesday for assaulting his common law partner in Whistler.

Schuffenhauer was distraught after the first run and cried as he was led by the hand through the media mixed zone near the finish

6) Vancouver: Olympic-standard boozing

While glitches may have overshadowed the Games, the festive spirit that spilled onto the streets of Vancouver earned the city a gold medal in drinking.
According to a Time magazine report the Canadian public taken the Olympics as a the perfect excuse to cut loose and indulge in some serious drinking.
The reporter writes: 'You can't help but think to yourself: "These must be the drunkest Olympics ever."' So much so that local hospitals are reporting a huge surge in visits to casualty for alcohol-related sicknesses and injuries.

7) The underage-drinking ice hockey queens
Photographs of members of the Canadian women's hockey team drinking champagne and beer on the ice rink after their victory over the U.S.caused a stir among officials.T he women celebrated their 2-0 victory against arch-rivals America by guzzling beer, swigging from bottles of champagne and puffing on cigars. Unfortunately, they chose to do it on the ice rink rather than in the changing room.

Even worse, star player Marie-Philip Poulin, 18, the youngest in the team and scorer of the two goals, is under British Columbia's legal drinking age of 19. Photos showed Poulin on the ice, with a beer in her hand.

8) The TV commentators who compared male ice skating to Brokeback Mountain

A pair of Australian TV sports commentators came under fire for describing male ice skaters' routines as 'Brokeback Mountain' exercises. Eddie McGuire and Mick Molloy joked about organisers being shocked at discovering one skater was not gay, adding that the non-gay skater was unlikely to be controversial and flamboyant U.S. figure skater Johnny Weir - because he wore a black and pink outfit while holding a heart-shaped cushion.

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9) And the other Olympic headaches: The flickering flame

Away from the sex and the drinking, not everything went entirely to plan.
While the closing ceremony went without hitch yesterday, the same can't be said for the opening ceremony. During the lighting of the Olympic torch a technical malfunction meant that one of the four pillars of the Olympic cauldron didn't rise up, leaving speed skater Catriona Le May Doan looking awkward when she couldn't ignite the flame.

10) The skater who got lost... on a rink

Perhaps the most upset of the competitors was Dutch speed skater Sven Kramer the gold in the 10,000m race after his coach sent him into the wrong lane getting the skater disqualified after his gruelling event.
Kramer, who was cruising to victory, has suggested a new coach will be joining him for the 2014 Games. But at least Kramer got to take part.

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