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Fucking idiots. There's not much else to say lol.
I heard about this and found their stupidity hilarious. Even funnier that the main guy who told the story legged it out of Brazil straight after, leaving the others in the group to deal with the shit lol.
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Sometimes your imagination runs wild when you can't hold your liquor. A bunch of the US swimming team went out & got drunk, then broke a mirror & a sign at a petrol station. They wouldn't pay $50 for the damages so a security guard shows them his pistol & they pay. One of them cried to the media, playing up to Rio's notoriety for crime and said they were robbed at gunpoint.
One of the athletes has had to pay $11k to a Brazilian charity to get his passport back and leave Brazil. The main culprit Ryan Lochte is already back in the US, if he kept his mouth shut none of this would have happened.
Sunday 14 August
- Ryan Lochte's mother tells US media her son has been robbed in Rio de Janeiro
- Mr Lochte gives an account of the events, saying he, Gunnar Bentz, Jack Conger and James Feigen were returning by taxi from a club in the early hours of the morning when they were robbed at gunpoint by men who forced the vehicle to pull over (car was actually stationary at a petrol pump)
- The swimmers do not report the incident to police or to the US Olympic Committee, and police officers only get involved after seeing TV reports
Monday 15 August
- Police investigating the case say there are inconsistencies in the men's accounts
Tuesday 16 August
- CCTV footage emerges of the men's return to the athletes' village showing them laughing and joking, and handing over wallets and phones as they go through the security screens
Wednesday 17 August
- Ryan Lochte admits there were inaccuracies in his original account of being robbed at gunpoint, but vehemently denies making the story up
- Judge orders that the passports of the four men be seized before it emerges that Mr Lochte has already left for the US
- Gunnar Bentz and Jack Conger taken off a US-bound plane at Rio de Janeiro airport
Thursday 18 August
- Brazilian police sources tell media outlets that the men invented a story about a robbery to disguise a dispute over a damaged bathroom door at a petrol station in Barra da Tijuca, 16km (10 miles) from the Olympic Park
- CCTV video emerges that appears to show the athletes being detained and ordered to sit on the ground
- Gunnar Bentz and Jack Conger enter a Rio police station for questioning
- Head of Rio's civil police emphatically denies a robbery took place, saying the case centred around an incident of vandalism and payment for damage
- Gunnar Bentz and Jack Conger fly out of Rio, with James Feigen unable to travel as his passport is still held by the Brazilian authorities
The swimmers have now said they were extorted for $400. A new video has come out, showing them go through the Olympic park scanners with their phones, watches & wallets in place.