On Aug. 16, a Brazilian judges ordered the four athletes to not leave the country until they could be questioned further. “We are victims, and happy that we’re safe.’ In the police press conference, they said ‘Not victims, they’re vandals.’ How do you feel about that?” Add up all those golds, silvers and bronzes, and no US team won more at a fully attended Olympics. But he also said he “couldn’t answer” whether the men were being robbed. I don’t want them to think I left them and left them out to dry. “And unfortunately it has overshadowed some really fantastic performances by a lot of great athletes”.
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Four-time Olympian and gold medalist, Ryan Lochte took “full responsibility” for embellishing the incident in Rio that brought global outrage.
Like Lochte, Melaragno said the armed guards at the gas station forced the four us swimmers to pay for damages instead of calling police, which, he argued, was itself a crime.
Lochte took “full responsibility” Saturday for the incident in Rio, telling NBC News that he “over-exaggerated that story”.
In a separate interview with Brazilian television, Lochte admitted he was still “highly intoxicated” when he told the tall tale.
“It’s how you wanna make it look like”.
There were plenty of those examples.
On Sunday, the U.S.
Lochte said that he hopes to continue his Olympic swimming career, if officials allow it.
“It’s a huge honor”, said the 4-foot-8 Biles, though she noted she’s a bit anxious about handling the weight of the flag.
It’s even more unfortunate that so much attention has been placed on the swimmer’s night of drunken debauchery and subsequent cover-up, distracting from other athletes’ hard work and victories.
What remains to be seen is whether Lochte will continue to get a pass for his behavior or if he’ll have to take more responsibility for his actions.
USA Swimming and the International Olympic Committee could sanction Lochte.
“The behavior of these athletes is not acceptable, nor does it represent the values of Team USA or the conduct of the vast majority of its members”, the United States Olympic Committee said in a statement Thursday.
DeFrantz made no effort to hide her disdain for the incident.
In addition to the swimmers, Swedish tourists were briefly abducted when they visited a slum, Portugal’s visiting education minister was robbed at knife point, bullets flew into the equestrian centre and a Games bus was attacked with stones. “They’re rapists, and some, I assume, are good people”. But this time he’s claiming to tell the truth.
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The Mongolian coaches went much further than that.
