Lochte Robbery Story: True or False

[Anonymous]

Poor Jack Conger, first he unfairly loses his spot in the relay final to Lochte, then he gets caught up in this mess in Rio while Lochte is safely back in the US.

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Anonymous wrote:I honestly can't believe Brazil would escalate this situation like this. Taking US Olympians off a plane and detaining them in the country seems like a fairly big diplomatic incident to me. Their story sounds pretty plausible to me.

It's like they think that if they can prove this one incident false, that it wipes all the other ones, too. Unlivable apartments in the Olympic village with sewage running down the walls when too many toilets were flushed. All the press agencies having their expensive cameras stolen from INSIDE arenas, including one from a ceiling. Open water swimmers getting dysentery. Dead bodies on the volleyball beach. A kayaker crashing into an underwater SOFA (!!). Ignoramus crowds booing like every event is a soccer match, including during anthems and medal ceremonies. Arenas that are 20% full. A German coach being killed by a taxi going headfirst into a concrete wall. A giant camera falling on spectators from midair. Letting divers compete in an unchlorinated green pool and lying to them that the water is fine when it's really full of microbes and "organic compounds"--they are damned lucky that British synchro diver with asplenia hasn't gotten very sick. But nooooo, this one thing with the moron swimmers probably didn't happen, so that means the rest of it hasn't, either! All is well!

+1. I can't tell you how many interviews/stories I've read where Brazilian authorities are asked why the stands are so empty and they simply deny it and say they've sold 80% of the tickets or something like that. Really??? Look at the stands...they are empty! This Olympics has been a disaster...

I'm sure Lochte and the other swimmers were robbed. They probably didn't report it because they were drinking and potentially broke some rules by leaving the village in a cab at night, etc. Of course there are going to be discrepancies in their stories...even if they were totally sober, there would be discrepancies in their stories! This whole thing is a disgrace and U.S. authorities need to step in ASAP and get our athletes home!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think Brazil is doing this to try and suppress any further reporting of muggings or other crimes against the athletes and tourists. If you come forward and report, we will seize your passport, detain you, and who knows when you will get to come home.

I believe this. Bad move because Brazil's actions here are bringing a lot more attention to a robbery that I believe really happened. Matt Lauer gave an interview to Costas last night after Lauer spoke to Lochte on the phone. It was detailed and convincing. Lauer concluded that it happened but Lochte may have embellished some of the details during the initial telling of the story. I suspect the men were very drunk when they were robbed. Details of the encounter could be hazy. Lauer also described interesting tid-bits of his conversation with Lochte, like how Lochte compared the questioning he rec'd in the US after his home was burgled to the questioning he rec'd from Brazil police after they reported the robbery. The police is Brazil were very casual and didn't ask for many details.

[Anonymous]

I thought it was made up from the word go

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Anonymous wrote:Poor Jack Conger, first he unfairly loses his spot in the relay final to Lochte, then he gets caught up in this mess in Rio while Lochte is safely back in the US.

How did Conger unfairly lose his spot to Lochte?

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Anonymous wrote:First and foremost, Ryan Lochte is HOT.

That said, his skills in life are his looks and his swimming prowess. Not his mental acuity.

Also, his mom--who seems like a VERY loving woman based on what I saw on the short-lived reality show Ryan starred in after London--is a sweet woman, but not the brightest bulb on the tree.

Poor woman was worried about her son after he told her that he was robbed. That's all. So she did what every good mother does...tells the news.

How do YOU KNOW THIS??????

Sometimes he gives interviews. And I religiously watched his reality show.

Riiiiighhhhhtttttttt and people on reality shows aren't always acting dumb on purpose....

Ryan Lochte is not a smart man. He makes Phelps look like a genius.

He's smarter, faster, and richer than you... So I'd say he is fairly intelligent.

He's definitely faster and richer than me.

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Anonymous wrote:The more attention Brazil draws to the mugging, the more I think it was actual police robbing the swimmers, not criminals impersonating the police.

Bingo.

Yep. Here is what I think happened. Lochte was robbed by two men who he says were "dressed as police" because he doesn't come from a world where actual police rob people. Then the Brazilian authorities freak out. He never wanted this to be a story and certainly doesn't want it to be now. So he says they weren't dressed as police, thinking that will appease the Brazilian authorities and they'll back off. But it doesn't work. Brazil just doesn't get how it looks when you try to detain people for reporting a crime.

[Anonymous]

They made it up!

https://twitter.com/mattgutmanABC/status/766268427661029376

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Anonymous wrote:They made it up!

https://twitter.com/mattgutmanABC/status/766268427661029376

Umm, they went to a gas station and something happened there. Either one of the swimmers got into a fight, or something else happened, or nothing exciting happened. Then they say they were robbed.

Not seeing how this proves that Rio authorities are on the up-and-up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They made it up!

https://twitter.com/mattgutmanABC/status/766268427661029376

This is hearsay. We need to see the actual video...

[Anonymous]

We have travelled all over the world including the Middle East in times of unrest and Rio is by far the most dangerous. We could not go out after dark. After dark it is so dangerous.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:They made it up!

https://twitter.com/mattgutmanABC/status/766268427661029376

This is hearsay. We need to see the actual video...

+1. Also, yesterday they were claiming the video showed they were not at the gas station at all. Sounds like Brazil can't keep their story straight.

[Anonymous]

Using the twitter link above I also saw this...

With his fellow #TeamUSA swimmers stuck in Brazil facing more police questioning #RyanLochte tweeting this...


Ryan Lochte: My hair is going back to its normal color tomorrow ?

Such an idiot.

[Anonymous]

I bet they were attempting to buy drugs or something and got held up. Why else would Lochte say that he didn't want to call the police because he didn't want to get in trouble? He is not exactly a bright kid, he says what he means.

[Anonymous]

FWIW Daily Mail is now saying they destroyed a gas station bathroom, the clerk asked them to pay, they refused and started to leave, at which point the clerk/a security guard pointed a gun at them demanding money, and then they paid and left. I could see how that in Lochte's mind was a robbery . . . .