Olympians behaving badly! The Japanese gymnast banned for smoking, the athletics star unable to compete with her boyfriend and glamorous Paraguayan swimmer who created an 'inappropriate' atmosphere

Being selected for a place at an Olympic Games is an experience few of us are able to conceive of, and for many of the athletes currently competing in Paris, their two weeks in the Olympic village are a once-in-a-lifetime experience. 

But for a small handful of athletes, their time at the Games has been even more memorable - for the wrong reasons. 

Here, Mail Sport runs through the athletes and coaches that have been banished - or left under a cloud - from the Games during the scandal-packed fortnight in the French capital. 

Luana Alonso 

A fug of mystery hangs over the precise reasons why the glamorous Paraguayan swimmer Luana Alonso was asked to leave the Olympic Village days before the Games are due to end - or whether she had to in the first place. 

20-year-old Alonso herself has insisted that she was being falsley represented in reports that that she had been banished from the village due to alleged 'inappropriate behaviour', but she certainly is no longer in Paris, according to Internet sleuths which place her in the United States instead. 

Alonso - who retired from swimming after this Games (but has said she had been planning to do so all along) - undoubtedly caused a splash. The swimmer has been accused of making fellow athletes feel 'uncomfortable' during her time in Paris, as well as posing for pictures with stars such as Rafa Nadal, and sporting her own clothes rather than her nation's branded sportswear. 

'She withdrew from swimming and therefore left. She was never excluded,' a representative of the Paraguayan committee told a French newspaper. 'As she stopped, she began to behave in an individualistic way and not as a member of the team.

'That's what made the other athletes and the delegation uncomfortable. That's all. There is no big drama.'

Head of mission Larissa Schaerer went one step further, saying that 'her presence (was) creating an inappropriate atmosphere whin Team Paraguay'. 

Alonso, however, is not likely to care. Since the scandal broke, the college student has seen her following boosted to nearly 1million on Instagram.

Shoko Miyata

A week before the Games began, Japan's artistic gymnastics team was thrown into chaos with the forced expulsion of their captain Shoko Miyata by her country's association. 

Miyata had been training with her team-mates in Monaco when she was found to have been smoking and drinking in Tokyo on two occasions between late June and early July, in strict contravention of the association's code of conduct. 

The 19-year-old - who is underage in Japan - is thought to have cited the pressures of the upcoming Games and her coach Mutsumi Harada described Miyata as 'experiencing high levels of stress' but despite offering their support and condolences, the Japan Gymnastics Association delivered the harsh punishment - torpedoing their medal chances in the process.  

During their introduction ahead of the all-around team final, Rina Kishi, Haruka Nakamura, Mana Okamura and Kohane Ushioku took a moment in the spotlight to perform one of Miyata's signature floor exercise moves in tribute to their team-mate at home. 

Without Miyata in their ranks, Japan finished eighth in the standings, with all-conquering Team USA claiming gold, Italy placing second, and Rebecca Andrade and Co of Brazil winning bronze.  

Luna Bulmahn 

Preparing all season to take part in an Olympic event and then being axed at the last minute must sting - but not as much as being excluded for the entire competition will. If in doubt, ask Germany's Luna Bulmahn, who vented publicly about being left out of one race - and is thought to have been swiftly sent home by her unimpressed association. 

The 400m specialist was a surprise omission from the 4x400m mixed relay team last week, with her association plumping to select headline-grabbing Alicia Schmidt in her place. Bulmahn was nonplussed, and took to Instagram to communicate her frustrations. 

'Yes, I am the second fastest 400-metre athlete on paper,' Bulmahn wrote on Instagram. 'No, I was not nominated for the mixed relay.'

The event went ahead, featuring her boyfriend Jean Paul Bredau, who opted not to hold back on what he considered a poor decision after the team failed to qualify for the final. 

'Not everything went perfectly beforehand. That's why I didn't have the energy,' Bredau said after the race. 'The DLV made it very clear: the fastest four should run. A different decision was made.'

But while Bredau was given the chance to apologise and continue competing in Paris, Bulmahn was shipped home, missing out on the women's 4x400m relay - saw which Schmidt and Co unable to qualify from the heats on Friday morning.   

Bev Priestman, Joseph Lombardi and Jasmine Mander

Some teams will do anything to gain a competitive edge. Or, in the words of Bev Priestman, the Canada women's football coach, all top teams do. Regardless, it was Priestman and her team of assistants whose outlandish methods were found out - kicking off the first major scandal of Paris 2024. 

Priestman and assistants Joseph Lombardi and Jasmine Mander were found to be behind the team's use of drones to spy on first opponents New Zealand during their training sessions. 

A person operating the drone over New Zealand's base in St Etienne was detained by French police after suspicions were raised, with Mander and Lombardi promptly sent home before Priestman removed herself too. 

But punishment from an array of governing bodies has been hefty. All three coaches have been hit with a one-year ban from football handed out by FIFA, and the Canadian team were deducted six points ahead of their first match. 

The Canadian federation was also fined 200,000 Swiss francs by the IOC for the infraction. 

But in Priestman's attempts to see the case dismissed on appeal with the Court of Arbitration for Sport, emails from the coach seem to suggest that the practice is a common one amongst major players - even hinting that the men's team might have worked similarly. 

Canada were knocked out of the competition at quarter-final stage, after defeat to Germany. 

Ana Carolina Vieira

For many, a trip to Paris is not complete without a visit to the Eiffel Tower. So thought Brazilian swimmer Ana Carolina Viera and her partner Gabriel Santos, both of whom were selected to compete in their nation's swimming events. 

But Brazil's Olympic Committee had other ideas, and when Viera and Santos snuck off to the French capital's most eye-catching landmark to take in the iconic sight - and snap a few incriminating pictures for Instagram - both athletes were quickly punished for leaving the Olympic village 'without authorisation'. 

But as with Bulmahn, Viera's banishment from the Brazil camp, and Santos' ability to stay to compete in Paris, stemmed from her inability to take the decision lying down. 

As per the BOC, Viera had 'contested' the decision to remove her from the line-up of the women's 4x100m relay 'in a disrespectful and aggressive manner', which saw them decide to book her a ticket on the next flight home. 

'We're not here playing or taking a vacation,' Brazil's swimming team leader Gustavo Otsuka said. 'We're here working for Brazil, for the 200 million taxpayers who are working for us.

'We can't play around here. She took a complete inappropriate position to make her point, her dismay, about the formation of the relay.' 

For her part, Viera is considering legal options, after breaking her silence on social media to share her 'sadness' at having been reprimanded so firmly.  

'I am sad, nervous, but with a peace of mind because I know who I am,' Viera said in the video. 'I know what my character and my nature are.'