BACK WITH A BANG Olympic snowboard queen Melo Imai who quit to be a porn star makes amazing return to slopes
Japan's former Olympian Imai storms to victory in halfpipe comeback event - after just four days of training
A FORMER Olympic snowboarder who gave up the sport to become a porn star has now revealed she wants to become queen of the slopes again.
Melo Imai gave up boarding after the 2006 Games and took to earning money as a hostess in a bar as well as providing sexual services.
Imai competed for Japan as an 18-year-old in Turin but failed to win a medal in the halfpipe event.
She swapped the snow for pornographic films but is now back in snowboarding with a bang.
Amazingly she has just won a national competition with just four days of training.
Mind you, the sport runs in Imai's family - dad Takashi Narita is a snowboarding coach and one of her brothers, Dome Narita, was also a competitor in the sport.
Imai said of the career change: "After the Olympics, I was making as much as a company president, and sometimes I'd go party at a host club and drop £6,670 in a single night."
But she had obviously not lost the snowboarding bug and decided to enter the 35th All Japan Snowboarding Championships in southern Japan.
