The AP reports police are still treating the swimmers as victims and investigating the incident, but Rio police said robberies are less common in the area the swimmers were on Sunday. “I look forward to getting home so that I can begin to map out the plans for my future with an eye on representing #TeamUSA at the #2020 Tokyo Olympics”.
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The source said Lochte and another swimmer told police they were intoxicated at the time and could not describe the taxi nor say exactly where or when the incident took place.
Lochte told USA Today Sports on Tuesday that the discrepancy was the result of he and his teammates’ fears that they would get in trouble if they told the USOC about the incident.
U.S, Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte recounted how one of the robbers threatened him by pointing a gun right at his forehead on August 14.
Appearing on NBC, Lochte offered chilling details. The athletes were returning to the Olympic village after celebrating the end of the swimming competition at the Rio Games. Lochte has won a total of 12 Olympic medals, six of which are gold, behind teammate Michael Phelps’s 28 medals, 23 of them gold.
Perhaps next time the International Olympic Committee looks at cities to host the Olympics, they do a little more research into how safe the athletes will be in it rather than counting the ways they can benefit from choosing it for their own greed.
Sandusky says the four swimmers are “safe and cooperating with authorities”.
The 32-year-old was reportedly on his way to a party at the invitation of Brazilian swimmer Thiago Pereira when the robbery occurred.
Street crime was a major concern of Olympic organizers going into the games, and there have been several high-profile problems on that front since the games started.
Brazil deployed 85,000 soldiers and police to secure the event, twice as many as Britain used during the 2012 London Olympics.
At that point, Lochte said he complied.
Two stray bullets hit the equestrian venue and a media bus had windows shattered, causing light injuries, in an attack which was blamed on stone-throwing youths.
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The Overseas Security Advisory Council, an arm of the U.S. State Department, warns that drug gangs play a large role in violence in Rio. “I was like, ‘Whatever, ‘” he said.
