Top Dutch gymnast Verona van de Leur, now retired, is a well-decorated athlete who has earned her placed in Dutch gymnastics history.
Unfortunately, she has made the news several times this year for much less glamourous deeds. First, she was accused and found guilty of blackmail. Last year she snapped pics of a couple that was having an affair and then asked them for 2,000 euro to keep quiet. To make things worse, the cops found child pornography on her computer, but for whatever reason, that went away. Her past is full of family stories that include embezzling and threats as well.
Van de Leur started a company that deals with sex pictures and is about to embark into the world of porn as a webcam girl. Her argument for anyone who wants to point fingers at her, at least for the porn part, is that ex-athletes are looked down upon when they go south while it’s OK for actresses to pose nude in magazines.
As if people didn’t already picture gymnasts naked when watching television…
(Link: welingelichtekringen.nl, Photo of Gymnastics hall by battlecreekcvb, some rights reserved)
