Olympian Scotty Lago Heads Home

Scotty Lago, after winning a bronze medal for men's halfpipe snowboarding event on Wednesday voluntarily went home. This all happened after a photo of a woman biting his medal leaked out through the media. The media account of the photo was that the medal was strapped around his waist which made the medal hang over is groin. This was happening in a public street in Vancouver. Another picture shows him holding the medal by his team USA logo while the woman was biting the medal. He has apologized to the US Olympic board and to the ski and snowboard association who requires that the athletes attend a special ambassador program prior to the games to avoid embarrassment situations such as what has just happened to Lago. He is a great athlete which comes with great responsibilities, he was representing our nation and he let a nightmare for the nation happen after he had won his medal. These athletes must remember that they are representing their nation. What happened is just not acceptable said Bill Marolt, Association President and CEO. So far there has not been any action taken against him.

2 Dead in explosion

The general manager of the power plant did confirm to the news media that was interviewing him that there are two fatalities, but he could not confirm how many injuries there are. The explosion was caused by a fire which in turn caused the gas explosion. The Middletown police told reporters that the explosion was huge. Some residence thought that it was a earthquake, the explosion shook their homes as if it was a earthquake. How the fire happened is they were firing up the engines Sunday and something went wrong. The plant is currently under construction.