Scandal: Foreigner Deflowers Sports Hero!

And Sara thinks she's died here once before
She's crazy
A pop-up book of flowers from grade 4
Are driving her insane
No-one knows why
She's sad tonight
No-one can help her find
--Our Lady Peace

The latest Japanese uproar: a married, female sports hero gets it on with a foreigner in a nightclub...and that Gaijin was a Canadian. Great. Now we're all shamed. MDN News:

Kaikyaku, a Japanese term used to describe spreading the legs, is also the name given to a technique in moguls skiing. [Ed-You can see where this is going!]

Kaikyaku helped Tae Satoya pick up a gold medal at the 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics, but spreading her legs for an entirely different purpose in a Roppongi nightclub last month has now got her in all sorts of trouble following an expose in Shukan Bunshun (3/10).

Soo much of the funny. You have to see the accompanying photo to fully appreciate these paragraphs.

"I was sitting down with a girlfriend on a sofa to the left of the club entrance when he came over to us, said he was a Canadian who liked Japanese women and plonked himself down in between us," the woman tells Shukan Bunshun.
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Satoya dumped her coach, Fearing, grabbed the blond looker's hand and dragged him into 911's VIP room. The room's entrance is covered with navy colored curtains and opens into a space filled with comfy sofas. The room shuts out the noise from the dance floor and provides some quiet space for couples seeking a little bit of time for themselves.

"They sat down on a red seat at the very back of the room," a foreign employee of 911 tells Shukan Bunshun. "They were locked in an embrace in a corner seat, then suddenly whipped out their private parts and began having sex. Some staff members raced over to them and told them to stop, but they wouldn't listen.

So many foreigners in this story. They are obviously corrupting her. So much shame.

"A couple of the club's black bouncers came in to stop her, but she wasn't threatened even by these huge guys and she went at them. The bouncer started bleeding because of the broken glass. The troubled owner had no option but resort to calling in the cops," the foreigner says.

..... The unedited version said 'foreign devil'. I wish we'd stop being referred to as 'foreigner' or 'Gaijin'.

Anyways, this is the big news over here: A ritual, public humiliation of a sports hero. I think we have the same thing in North America (Bonds, McGuire, Ben Johnson). The more sports heros let us down, the more I respect Wayne Gretzky. He's been in the public eye for over 25 years and he's never been bad, except for when he nailed Esa Tikkanen into the boards in the '93 playoffs against Edmonton. Can ya blame Gretzky though? Esa was a jerk.