2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics

(lago and his bronze medal shortly before the medal reached an awkward destination)

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The 2010 Winter Olympics are shaping up to be one of the greatest winter games ever for the U.S. As of today, the U.S. is still leading in the total medal count and has a few events left in which we should medal, including hockey, figure skating, ski racing and short track skating. But the games are not without controversy.

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Scotty Lago, the bronze medalist in the men's halfpipe, was asked to leave Vancouver after being photographed at a party in a "menage a trois" with his medal and an unidentified woman. Who knows what strange new worlds that medal explored, but suffice it to say that Lago learned the first lesson of fame, don't do anything in public which could be embarrassing, because it will end up on the internet.

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.(Mancuso, obviously upset after her "make-up" run yesterday)

.Lindsey Vonn and Julia Mancuso, the two most successful skiers on the U.S. women's team, took swipes at each other this week. Vonn has a gold and bronze medal, Mancuso, two silvers, but it's Vonn, featured on a recent Sports Illustrated cover, who is clearly the "golden girl" of these Olympic games. Mancuso told Sports Illustrated this week that the U.S. ski team was being hurt by "a popularity contest." "People are having a hard time reaching their potential because it's such a struggle for attention," Mancuso went on to say. "You come to meetings after races and it's like it's a bad day if Lindsey didn't do well." Meow! It didn't help any when Mancuso was waved off the course yesterday because Vonn had crashed seconds before Mancuso started her run. On Mancuso's make-up run, she performed far worse than in the original run, possibly costing her a medal.

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But the biggest cry-baby of all continues to be the Russian diva, Evgeni Plushenko, who bitterly lost the gold medal to American Evan Lysacek in men's figure skating. Plushenko continues to insist to the press that he really won the event, and insulted Lysacek's performance by saying that it was more like ice dancing than figure skating. Most absurdly, on Plushenko's website, instead of labeling his new medal as silver, he captioned it as a "platinum" medal. We've got an idea, instead of inserting his bronze medal into a woman's mouth, maybe Scotty Lago could shove his medal in a particular Plushenko orifice.