Ostrow also said Lochte hired security following the incident. It’s all surrounding an alleged robbery that happened to him and a few other swimmers on Sunday morning. “He took my wallet”. “The main thing is he’s very lucky that he’s safe and that all they got was his cash and wallet”. Lochte has said the reason the group did not report the incident was fear of repercussions for being so far away from Olympic Village. He said he was sure Ryan had his passport or he would not have been allowed to board a plane. Feigen told the San Antonio Express-News that he is still in Brazil.
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However, Lochte is already back in the States, and though the swimmer has yet to comment personally, his reps say they received no word of the the search and seizure warrant issued by Judge Keyla Blanc De Cnop.
The US Olympic swimmer recounts the moment he thought he was dead after being held up and robbed in Rio. “Ryan was a hundred percent cooperative and fully available when they reached out to us for an interview”.
The U.S. State Department issued a statement Wednesday encouraging those involved to cooperate with Brazilian law enforcement.
“Why would anybody fabricate anything?” Pereira and his wife left the party before the Americans, who told police they caught a taxi at a nearby gas station.
Three days later, Brazilian officials are still trying to sort out what actually happened, and it seems they want to speak more with Lochte about the incident.
It was not clear if Feigen remained in the country.
Ryan Lochte (USA) shows off his gold medal after the men’s 4x200m freestyle relay final in the Rio 2016 Summer Olympic Games at Olympic Aquatics Stadium.
When that video was published on The Daily Mail’s website, it was initially described as showing how Lochte “and his shaken teammates slunk back into the Athletes Village after a night of partying ended in a chilling gunpoint robbery”.
In a statement released on the court’s website on Wednesday, Blanc said that in Lochte’s testimony to police, he said that the athletes had been stopped by one robber in the early hours of August 14, who demanded all their money ($400).
But a close viewing of the video shows that Lochte and his friends were wearing their watches when they returned – and that they put their cellphones and other belongings into baskets at the security gate. “I refused, I was like, ‘We didn’t do anything wrong, so – I’m not getting down on the ground'”.
“The guy pulled out his gun, he cocked it, put it to my forehead”, Lochte continued.
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Jeffrey Ostrow told The Huffington Post Wednesday that the 12-time Olympic medalist is back in the US and disputed that he was told not to leave.
