New Hampshire native Scotty Lago is taking his Olympic bronze medal and heading back to the Granite State.
The snowboarder, just days after placing third in the halfpipe, volunteered to leave the Olympics on Friday after risque pictures of him showed up on the Internet.
Lago was at a party Thursday night when somebody snapped a photo of a woman kneeling below Lago’s waist to kiss his medal. That photo, along with another one in which the woman is biting the medal, appeared on TMZ's Web site Friday.
"Scotty Lago is a great athlete, but with that comes a responsibility of proper conduct, and his involvement in this situation is not acceptable," U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association president and CEO Bill Marolt told The Associated Press. "Scotty realizes his conduct was inappropriate. He has formally apologized and also made a decision to leave Vancouver."
