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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]What I don't understand why people are defending this guy?[/b] There are others in the Olympic team who are truly deserving of praise and have done the country proud.

Lochte is a blot on American athletes who excel in their sport and enhance the reputation of the US. The guy is 32 years old and is just an arrogant, self-absorbed jerk.[/quote]

We are defending the rights of both rich Americans and regular non-rich Americans to go to Rio without being subject to shakedowns at gunpoint.  Or shakedowns involving confiscated passports.

There were lots of athletes who competed and were excellent ambassadors of the US.  These are not mutually exclusive concepts.  [/quote]

When you go to a foreign country you follow the laws of that country. You don't expect American standards of jurisprudence to be operative. Now if that is not acceptable then don't leave the US.

Even in the US, if the authorities believe that someone who is involved in criminal conduct is likely to leave the country, they confiscate the passport.

We tell foreigners who come to the US whether as visitors or to stay for any length of time that they are expected to comply with our laws - and rightly so. What makes Americans think that they can go to a foreign country and not obey their laws?

It is this hypocrisy and sense of self-entitlement that gives Americans a bad name.[/quote]

Er, no, I was referring to Feigen's "charitable donation" in order to get his passport back.  While special pleas and charitable donations are perfectly legal in Brazil, it's unlikely that he did anything warranting such a special plea. A Brazilian judge has admitted that the Americans may well have been robbed by the security guards, and a Brazilian lawyer has stated that the actions of Lochte and Feigen did not constitute the filing of a false police report as defined under Brazilian law.  IOW, we expect that Americans be subject to the laws of the host country, not to shakedowns.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/olympics/rio-2016/2016/08/21/investigation-ryan-lochte-rio-olympics-authorities/89082232/[/quote]

And the same judge who ordered the confiscation of his passport wanted the penalty to be four times a large as he paid but by then Feigen had left the country. But I guess this Brazilian judge's view does not count among those who felt that a crime had been committed.

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According to this article (it's the Daily Mail, so questionable), there were multiple judges involved who did seem to view events differently, since one allowed Feigen to leave the country and the other attempted to stop him from doing so.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3750940/Olympic-judge-tries-QUADRUPLE-fine-shamed-swimmer-Jimmy-Feigen-left-Brazil.html[/quote]

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