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'More interested in posting photos of her behind'

The diver at the centre of an Olympics sex scandal is no stranger to controversy, criticised before Rio 2016 for her lack of focus.

It's been revealed that 20-year-old Ingrid Oliveira, who shot to infamy when she kicked her partner out of their room in the Olympic village in order to have a 'marathon sex session' with fellow Brazilian Pedro Goncalves, had previously been lambasted for posting a 'provocative' photo of herself in a swimsuit the day before her first individual jump at the Pan American Games in Toronto last year.

The photo in question. Image: Instagram

At the time Brazilians said the athlete was 'more interested in posting photos of her behind than winning medals'.

She went on to win zero points in her event after misjudging her jump and flopping into the pool on her back.

She later admitted 'terrible comments' on her Instagram page had 'knocked her'.

"I thought it was absurd what people were commenting, because I thought there was nothing much in that photo", she said at the time.

"If there was anything so bad I wouldn't have posted it. These people need to think before they speak because they said a lot of absurdities.

Image: Instagram

"I had to go through and delete each clueless comment. I just think this polemic should never have happened. People were saying I was more interested in posting photos of my behind than winning medals."

Image: Instagram

Even her trainer was unhappy, criticising the diver's lack of focus just hours before one of her the most important days of her career.

Andreia da Silva said: "I've already told her to stop with this internet thing. No one is banning anything, she can have fun, she can play, but she has to pay more attention because we have an Olympic objective.

"Now they've put her in the media, right up there, as a sex symbol.

Oliveira hit back by posting a video before Rio 2016, saying: "For the moralists on duty, I wanted to make very clear that I practise mortal jumps every day, and the chance of me making a mistake this time is almost zero."

Oliveira and partner Giovanna Pedroso, 17 finished last in the women's 10m synchronised diving last week, despite winning silver at the Toronto Pan American Games last year.

Goncalves (L) and Oliviera (second from right). Image: Instagram

Their dive in Rio was labelled 'pathetic' in local media and was said to have been so bad the crowd laughed.

"After the Olympics, I will focus on my individual," Pedroso told Brazilian newspaper O Globo.

Pedroso and Oliviero. Image: Instagram

"It's good because I will not need to depend on anyone. Then I will be able to improve and evolve more."