It's unfortunate, but this is Lochte's legacy now. The story is big for now. Sports radio that spent little to no time on Olympics are talking about it.
This from the Daily Mail. Catch line is "The only truth they told was they were drunk."
"US swimmers Jack Conger and Gunnar Bentz have told police that they fabricated claims that they and their Olympic teammate Ryan Lochte were robbed at a gas station on Sunday.
The sudden admission came as video was released in which the men can be seen running to and from the bathroom at the establishment, spending over 10 minutes at the gas station a little after 6am in the morning.
Sources have confirmed to DailyMail.com that Lochte and the group destroyed a door at the gas station and refused to pay for the damage until a security guard demanded they hand over money.
The gas station where the incident occurred is not the same one that Loochte initially told authorities he had been at on Sunday."
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...claims-brazen-Lochte-laughs-social-media.html
Nbc after a press conference:
The four American swimmers who have claimed they were victims of an armed robbery in Rio were the ones causing trouble that night and fabricated their account of the incident, the chief of civil police said Thursday.
"Right now, as we speak, what the police can affirm — there was no robbery the way it was reported or claimed by the athletes," said Chief Fernando Veloso, speaking in Portuguese at a press conference Thursday. "They were not victims of the criminal actions that they claimed they were."
Surveillance video plus witness accounts confirmed the swimmers, including 12-time Olympic medalist Ryan Lochte, damaged a bathroom door at a gas station in the Barra da Tijuca neighborhood before they returned to the athletes' village early Sunday, Veloso said.
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Veloso would not say whether any charges would be filed against the swimmers. He said the Americans paid $20 U.S. dollars plus 100 Brazilian reals for the damage to the gas station.
"We need to understand what each athlete did in order to understand what the crime was, if there was a crime," he added.
It was not clear whether one of the swimmers was involved in an altercation with a security guard at the gas station, as some news outlets reported on Thursday. But Veloso said it was clear the athletes weren't victim to any crime.
"Their claim that they were a victim of an assault or a robbery or any kind of violence is not true," he said.
Veloso described Lochte as "very angry" and "intoxicated" after the incident.
https://www.google.com/amp/www.nbcn...fabricated-story-report-n633636?client=safari
