Former top swimmer looks back on nude photo scandal: 'It was like rape'

There were years at the beginning of this century that Laure Manaudou (38) could not walk the streets normally in France. As the daughter of Brabant badminton player Olga Schippers and a French father, the French woman was a world top swimmer in 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007 with fifteen gold medals at European Championships, World Championships and the Olympic Games. Until she suddenly went into hiding somewhere in 2007 after a scandal involving nu…