Lochte Robbery Story: True or False

[Anonymous]

And Air Weave is gone. So that makes ZERO endorsements now.

[Anonymous]

His goose is cooked . All four of his sponsors, including the Japanese company have now dropped him. Maybe Lochte will grow up finally.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Faaaaaaack. He's done. No sponsors and will be way too old to compete seriously in 2020. TF he gonna do?

Who cares--he's garbage.

Meh. It's pretty hard to work up much outrage. The latest reports suggest it was just the peeing outside and the torn poster - that was the extent of their wrongdoing and apparently what caused the guards to draw their weapons. A lot worse crimes happen every hour of every day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:His goose is cooked . All four of his sponsors, including the Japanese company have now dropped him. Maybe Lochte will grow up finally.

I dunno. He seems to have the maturity of a 10 year old.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dlyCTswYH0

[Anonymous]

I don't think he could get a job as a lifeguard right now.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't think he could get a job as a lifeguard right now.

You have no sense of perspective. He is literally one of the best swimmers in American history.

He got drunk, peed outside, tore a sign, and then arguably overreacted to a gun pointed at him. Phelps' multiple DUIs are way worse morally.

Lochte will have no trouble finding a job, once the pearl clutchers move on to the next scandal.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't think he could get a job as a lifeguard right now.

You've got to be kidding. I am NO fan of the guy yet I realize that a TWELVE time Olympian without a criminal record in the US IS employable in his sport. He got go snag a job RIGHT NOW as an assistant coach for a D1 university swim team -- like Phelps. Would it be a program that's always in the limelight and has its choice of coaches like Stanford or Berkley -- no, not right now. Could he EASILY get in with a university that has a swim team that doesn't too all that well and needs a turnaround -- yeah.

I don't think he'll go down that road right away. With a $6 million net worth he can coast for a good long while on investments alone. Then at some point if/when he wants to do something, he'll decide whether he'd rather stay in Charlotte -- in which case he'll open a swim school -- or if he wants a change of scenery -- in which case I think he'll head west to take on an assistant coach gig at a Pac 12 school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't think he could get a job as a lifeguard right now.

You've got to be kidding. I am NO fan of the guy yet I realize that a TWELVE time Olympian without a criminal record in the US IS employable in his sport. He got go snag a job RIGHT NOW as an assistant coach for a D1 university swim team -- like Phelps. Would it be a program that's always in the limelight and has its choice of coaches like Stanford or Berkley -- no, not right now. Could he EASILY get in with a university that has a swim team that doesn't too all that well and needs a turnaround -- yeah.

I don't think he'll go down that road right away. With a $6 million net worth he can coast for a good long while on investments alone. Then at some point if/when he wants to do something, he'll decide whether he'd rather stay in Charlotte -- in which case he'll open a swim school -- or if he wants a change of scenery -- in which case I think he'll head west to take on an assistant coach gig at a Pac 12 school.

12 time medalist - meant to say.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't think he could get a job as a lifeguard right now.

You have no sense of perspective. He is literally one of the best swimmers in American history.

He got drunk, peed outside, tore a sign, and then arguably overreacted to a gun pointed at him. Phelps' multiple DUIs are way worse morally.

Lochte will have no trouble finding a job, once the pearl clutchers move on to the next scandal.

He LIED and then lied and lied again ........ the guy is so stupid that he does not realize that his repeated lies about what happened is not helping him.

He is a moron - albeit a moron who can swim and has won medals.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't think he could get a job as a lifeguard right now.

You have no sense of perspective. He is literally one of the best swimmers in American history.

He got drunk, peed outside, tore a sign, and then arguably overreacted to a gun pointed at him. Phelps' multiple DUIs are way worse morally.

Lochte will have no trouble finding a job, once the pearl clutchers move on to the next scandal.

He LIED and then lied and lied again ........ the guy is so stupid that he does not realize that his repeated lies about what happened is not helping him.

He is a moron - albeit a moron who can swim and has won medals.

Sure, he is not smart. No one has claimed he is smart.

Agree to disagree on the lying. He probably overreacted and interpreted someone pointing a gun at him and demanding money as a robbery. You can think that he was wrong and that it wasn't a robbery. That's fine. But it doesn't mean he was repeatedly, purposefully lying.

Sounds like you could handle a gun pointed at you way better than he did. Kudos.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't think he could get a job as a lifeguard right now.

You have no sense of perspective. He is literally one of the best swimmers in American history.

He got drunk, peed outside, tore a sign, and then arguably overreacted to a gun pointed at him. Phelps' multiple DUIs are way worse morally.

Lochte will have no trouble finding a job, once the pearl clutchers move on to the next scandal.

He LIED and then lied and lied again ........ the guy is so stupid that he does not realize that his repeated lies about what happened is not helping him.

He is a moron - albeit a moron who can swim and has won medals.

Right but it's a scandal and scandals blow over. Think about how many celebrity scandals we've seen even of the criminal variety -- people do land; he just needs to disappear from the headlines for a while and all will be forgotten. And if he goes to rehab to turn his life around -- even better -- we love a good turnaround story in this country.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Would I enroll my kids in the Ryan Lochte Swim Academy? No. But I'd happily enroll myself, and could probably find a few other middle aged moms that would find it enjoyable as well.

Yes, this! Haha. He's gorgeous, as in stunning in looks. And fortunately for him, people forget and forgive, especially if the person is very good looking. I'm sure he'll write a tell all book, have a movie, get lots of paid interviews, etc, money wise, he'll do fine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
He LIED and then lied and lied again ........ the guy is so stupid that he does not realize that his repeated lies about what happened is not helping him.

He is a moron - albeit a moron who can swim and has won medals.

Right but it's a scandal and scandals blow over. Think about how many celebrity scandals we've seen even of the criminal variety -- people do land; he just needs to disappear from the headlines for a while and all will be forgotten. And if he goes to rehab to turn his life around -- even better -- we love a good turnaround story in this country.

He is yesterday's news and with the ban he faces he will be too old to stage any kind of recovery.

You really need to listen to his original lie about a gun being pointed at his head by the police and being robbed, etc.

And the amazing thing is that he keeps using words like exaggerate and overreact when he should just acknowledge that he made up a lot of crap and apologize. This moron says that he was still intoxicated hours after he got back and tries to rationalize his lies with that excuse even as he says that he is not making excuses.

The guy is an imbecile.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Faaaaaaack. He's done. No sponsors and will be way too old to compete seriously in 2020. TF he gonna do?

Who cares--he's garbage.

Meh. It's pretty hard to work up much outrage. The latest reports suggest it was just the peeing outside and the torn poster - that was the extent of their wrongdoing and apparently what caused the guards to draw their weapons. A lot worse crimes happen every hour of every day.

It's not the crime, it was the lying about what happened. If he had said that they were drunk, peed outside and ripped a poster off the wall and someone pulled a gun on them and demanded money they probably would have gotten a fair amount of support and sympathy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Faaaaaaack. He's done. No sponsors and will be way too old to compete seriously in 2020. TF he gonna do?

Who cares--he's garbage.

Meh. It's pretty hard to work up much outrage. The latest reports suggest it was just the peeing outside and the torn poster - that was the extent of their wrongdoing and apparently what caused the guards to draw their weapons. A lot worse crimes happen every hour of every day.

It's not the crime, it was the lying about what happened. If he had said that they were drunk, peed outside and ripped a poster off the wall and someone pulled a gun on them and demanded money they probably would have gotten a fair amount of support and sympathy.

Not in Brazil. He would still be facing indictment for daring to criticize people with badges.

The American press really doesn't care that much, the story is more about Rio and their extreme offense that Lochte was offended by being subject to a shakedown.