1. Ryan Lochte
Some may remember him from the E! Reality TV Show, What Would Ryan Lochte Do? Yet most may not due to the fact that the show unfortunately stopped productions after one season due to low viewership. Ryan Lochte isn't your typical 12 medal Olympic athlete who trains almost 24 hours a day. Instead, his free-spirited personality, which includes posing for a picture with his gold medal as well as his lovely grills, set him in a whole new level of spotlight in this year's Rio Games. Lochte's claim that he had been robbed, which police have deemed as a fabrication based on evidence as well as key witnesses, has put him into a new boiling pot of hot water.
2. Russia
Many think of Russia as the birthland of prominent prima ballerinas as well as of vodka, the college drink that many use for recreational purposes. However, in the 2016 Rio Olympics, Russia was faced with many controversies as its unethical concealment of altered dopamine tests of its athletes were uncovered. These changed urine samples that had originally been for the qualification of their athletes in the Sochi Games raised a lot of controversy which resulted in the possibility of elimination from this year's games.