One of the most decorated female distance runners in U.S. track history admitted that she had been working as a $600 an hour escort for a service based in Las Vegas.

Suzy Favor Hamilton is all smiles while running a victory lap after the women's 1,500 meters at the U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trails in 2000.  Robert Hanashiro, USA TODAY

According to The Smoking Gun, who had been working on the expose for several months,Suzy Favor Hamilton admitted to one of their reporters that she was the woman being profiled as "Kelly" on a site called Haley Heston's Private Collection. The service deleted Favor Hamilton's photos earlier this month at her request.

Via The Smoking Gun:

"I take full responsibility for my mistakes. I'm not the victim and I'm not going that route," Favor Hamilton said. "I'm owning up to what I did. I would not blame anybody except myself." She added, "Everybody in this world makes mistakes. I made a huge mistake. Huge."
Several hours after the story broke, the 44-year-old married mother issued a direct apology on her Twitter account.

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