Michael Phelps & Scott Lago Accuse Lainey Lui as Asian Medal-Biter at Schema : more than ethnic

Michael Phelps & Scott Lago Accuse Lainey Lui as Asian Medal-Biter

Remember the American Bronze medal snowboarder, Scott Lago, who got kicked out of Vancouver before the closing ceremony after some rather scandalous party photos popped up all over the internet? Poor guy, eh?

Yeah, no.

Rather, poor anonymous Asian girl, whose infamy on TMZ (and now, everywhere else on the web) will continue to haunt her forever...Or until another random Asian girl takes her place!

Lainey Lui, is a journalist who runs a gossip site, LaineyGossip.com. During the Olympics she was a regular on the the "gossip and celebrity watch" segment of CTV's Olympic coverage with MTV's Dan and Jessi.

Lainey was sent on a mission to go to an Olympics party, hosted by the one and only Michael Phelps to complete three tasks:

1. Take a picture with Mr.Phelps.
2. Kiss him on the cheek.
3. Get him to send her a text message.

As it turns out, Phelps was actually terrified of Lainey when she went in for the kiss because he was fully convinced that she was the Asian medal-biting rebel who got Scott Lago kicked out of Vancouver. In fact, he was so sure that he made a call to Lago's friend and told him that the "same Asian chick" had tried to make out with him too...ok, what the eff?!

"I am the Asian reporter in question. I am the person now being accused of getting Scotty Lago kicked out of Vancouver. I am the person Michael Phelps believed was trying to set them both up. Because some people don't know about Asians."—Lainey Lui

Now, because of Phelps' misidentification of Asian girls, Lago feels like he has been "set up" and wishes that the IOC was more supportive of him and ignore the fact that he hung the medal around his ding-dong...classy. Meanwhile, Lainey is being accused all over the internet as the girl who kicked Scott Lago out of Vancouver.

"Like hello! Excuse me, Michael Phelps, not all Asians look the same, stop the Racial profiling now!"—Lainey Lui

Ah yes, I can certainly see the resemblance. The black hair and degree of Asian-ness was a dead giveaway. I'll give Mr.Lago the benefit of the doubt. Maybe he doesn't know what Lainey looks like, but for Mr.Phelps, I don't know, if that was a joke, it wasn't a very funny one or maybe he hasn't laid off the pot yet.

In any case, it's yet another mistaken Asian identity story heard one too many times.

Check out Lainey Liu's response on youtube.com.