Revered French swimming icon Laure Manaudou has found herself to be the victim of a humiliating and degrading smear campaign, as nude and sexual images of Manaudou have surfaced on several Internet sites.
The timesonline.co.uk reports that the alleged culprits of the campaign are said to be “Italian rivals,” and specifically named an ex-boyfriend that Manaudou has recently split with for posting the graphic photos and video.

The report details how the 21-year old Olympian, and former Italian boyfriend Luca Marin had fought publicly at a swimming championships event Manaudou was competing at in Hungary. It appeared that Manaudou was angry about not winning the 200-meter freestyle race (Manaudou had taken gold medals in two other races). Manaudou wound up leaving Marin and returning to France to begin training for the Beijing Olympics. Soon after, the sexual content turned up on the Internet. The French media were quick to blame the jilted boyfriend for the postings, though Marin denies having anything to do with the public display of the content.

Manaudou has not denied that it is her in the photos and video, and her legal representation has made efforts to stop the distribution of the content.

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