Ryan Lochte may be one of the best swimmers in the world, and one of the worst thugs, but he’s only mediocre when it comes to generating Olympic scandals. The event has a long, tawdry history of making the world gasp in shock, raise its collective eyebrows, and grab its pearls. Someone at E just compiled a lurid collection of some of the strangest scandals and it’s an absolute must read for anyone who loves drama and dirt.
Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding are of course top of mind — you may be old enough to recall the weird situation when Harding arranged to have someone hit Kerrigan’s legs before the games. Alas, the hit man wasn’t as good as Harding hoped, and Nancy wound up winning silver. Tonya is banned from the professional figure skating organization for the rest of her life.
Then there’s Lance Armstrong with the whole drug-taking issue, along with Marion Jones, and Yulia Efimova who is alleged to have done the same. Tommie Smith and John Carlos delivered black-power salutes back in the 60s, and were banned. And various olympic officials took bribes throughout the late 90s (and probably for much more time) by people hoping their city would be selected for the games.
But of course the dark past of the Olympics goes much further back. Prior to the rise of Hitler, Germany was a fairly accepting place for LGBTQs, and sent gay Olympian Otto Pelzer to compete in 1928. Rather than working for the Nazis, he was arrested for homosexuality and imprisoned at a concentration camp for years. Following the war, he fled to India, coached there for several years, then died of a heart attack in 1970.
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PRINCE OF SNARKNESS aka DIVKID
Imagine sleeping on Frank Ocean’s Nikes video..you culturally illiterate basic bitch bloggers. You kinda suck at the gay zeitgeist thing
PRINCE OF SNARKNESS aka DIVKID
Meanwhile back to heteroville…
martinbakman
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Herman75
Ha love it.
BriBri
Ryan Lochte is just a garden variety jerk.
martinbakman
Why did Kweartee give this loser so much space over the years anyway.
I am done with this hot mess. Will search for something that smells a little better.
We’re sorry to see you go. BYE FELICIAS
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Master Rick
Does anyone other than me think the Lochtester has taken it up the ass more than once?
pscheck2
Your ‘speculation’ could be right as I get vibes, big time, every time he suits up for a meet! lol.
brandlover
Master Rick and pscheck 2 are not alone in their suspicions about hot Ryan! I’ll be he loves it up his ass! LOL! To bad about his “Speedo” non-sponsorship, though. He really does look good in one!