In Lochte’s case, Srour pointed out, police questioned Lochte and fellow us swimmer Jimmy Feigen after reading published reports about the incident.
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“That’s why I’m taking full responsibility for it, is because I overexaggerated that story and if I had never done that, we wouldn’t be in this mess”, said Lochte in an interview broadcast in part late Saturday, the peroxide color washed out of his hair. There was a locked door out back and I did not witness anyone breaking it open.
Lochte also said he had lied in telling NBC interviewer Billy Bush the next day that a gun had been cocked and pointed at his forehead.
Lochte’s interview with Matt Lauer aired during NBC’s prime time Olympic coverage on Saturday, with more airing on Monday, Aug. 22 on the “Today” show.
Lochte, a 12-time Olympic medalist, posted a statement to his social-media accounts Friday in which he apologized for his “behavior” and said he “should have been much more responsible in how I handled myself”.
Gunnar Bentz, the youngest of the four United States swimmers accused of making up a false story about an armed robbery at the Rio Olympics, released a statement on Friday detailing the events in question.
The gold medal victor is now back in the US trying to salvage has reputation and his given an interview with NBC’s Matt Lauer about the scandal which has rocked Team US which currently sits on top of the Olympics honours table.
Confronted by a security guard, they tried to leave.
Lochte has repeatedly changed his story about an altercation at a gas station in Rio de Janeiro last Sunday. But he said the athletes wanted to leave, so they paid 100 Brazilian reals (about United States $33) and $20 in USA currency and left.
Asked how he felt being home while his teammates were detained, Lochte said: “I let my team down”. Then the second guard drew his weapon and both guards pointed their guns at us and yelled at us to sit on a nearby sidewalk.
Lochte, who left for the U.S. the day after the incident, has also apologised.
The curtain of the crew section of a passenger plane covers U.S. Swimmers Jack Conger and Gunnar Bentz during their overnight flight from Brazil to Miami, August 19, 2016. “They were not victims of the crimes they claimed”, Civil Police Chief Fernando Veloso said.
The fourth member of the group, Jimmy Feigen, was set to leave the country on Friday night after agreeing with a judge to donate $11,000 to a sporting charity, a condition of police returning his passport.
Of course, we later learned that Lochte and Co. hadn’t been so much “robbed at gunpoint” as they had been forced to pay for a sign that Lochte had vandalized.
Lochte’s future swimming career is now in the hands of Olympic officials, who he hopes will be able to forgive him for the events of the past week. “I think the four swimmers are well aware of that now”.
Andrada said 2.5 percent of the mentions on the @Rio2016 Twitter account since the beginning of the games have been about the Lochte situation.
On Thursday, the USOC apologized “to our hosts in Rio and the people of Brazil” for the swimmers’ unacceptable behaviour and said it would assess any potential consequences for them.
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The three other swimmers in the vehicle tried to leave as quickly as possible because they feared Lochte would cause more damage, according to the revised testimony.
