OT - Ryan Lochte robbery case gets murkier
The Brazilian police has forbidden Lochte and the others from leaving Brazil while the evidence is being gathered, but he's apparently already returned to the United States.
The Rio police are casting doubt over Lochte's version of events, saying it doesn't square with testimony from others - although given their reputation for corruption, who really knows?
Apparently Lochte has met with the FBI to discuss the situation.
http://www.mediaite.com/online/lyin-lochte-rio-police-questioning-swimm…
August 17th, 2016 at 1:25 PM ^
"It was a dark and stormy night."
August 17th, 2016 at 1:39 PM ^
that day my friends!
August 17th, 2016 at 1:42 PM ^
Like an old man trying to return soup in a deli.
August 17th, 2016 at 1:47 PM ^
a man said while looking in Hope Solo's window.
August 17th, 2016 at 2:38 PM ^
August 17th, 2016 at 3:16 PM ^
I was in the POOL!!!
August 17th, 2016 at 8:03 PM ^
"Suddenly, a shot rang out!"
August 17th, 2016 at 1:26 PM ^
at the security check at the Athlete's Village shows some of these guys still had their wallets after they had been robbed. Also, it shows they arived back to their housing well after they left the party. Some missing info they did not provide to the police.
August 17th, 2016 at 1:37 PM ^
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August 17th, 2016 at 1:46 PM ^
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August 17th, 2016 at 2:26 PM ^
It sounds like a pretty sweet brothel name.
There were people that saw him at the party at the French House, but the question is what happened between them leaving there and them getting back to athlete's village. Its apparently a longer stretch of time than it should be -- even if they got robbed. Which is leading to people asking questions, and where the brothel rumor came from.
August 17th, 2016 at 2:28 PM ^
that they would go to a brothel when there is sex aplenty in the village. Doesn't make the rumor false - just odd.
August 17th, 2016 at 2:33 PM ^
In his press conference a few days ago, Lochte was talking about how he's on Tinder. And we were all kind of wondering why he was on Tinder. Like, isn't the fact that he's good looking, ripped, and Ryan Lochte enough to pick up women? My take after that was that he's just lazy or has no game when trying to pick up women.
August 17th, 2016 at 2:39 PM ^
Maybe the bleached hair is a turn off?
I don't know who else was with him - any reason to think they can't pick up some olympian strange?
August 18th, 2016 at 12:29 AM ^
Some people prefer sex that's been paid for.
And some people have preferences that are easier to satisfy in a brothel than on the street or in the village.
August 17th, 2016 at 1:57 PM ^
They tell you to carry 2 wallets and 2 phones so that doesn't mean anything.
August 17th, 2016 at 1:26 PM ^
August 17th, 2016 at 1:32 PM ^
Vladimir Putin did it.
August 17th, 2016 at 1:42 PM ^
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August 17th, 2016 at 2:12 PM ^
August 17th, 2016 at 3:19 PM ^
It Was Ms. Scarlet, with the Candlestick, in the Dining Room
August 17th, 2016 at 5:23 PM ^
I'll tell you one thing, Ms. Scarlett can have MY candlestick in any room
August 17th, 2016 at 5:23 PM ^
August 17th, 2016 at 1:33 PM ^
I was just reading the New York Times story on this actually - I guess the Rio's main paper did a big spread on how the security camera footage does not mesh with the times given by Lochte and the others with regards to who was where and when, about how they couldn't recall more precise details such as the color and make of the taxi or indeed where they were when the assault happened. Of course, it's hard to trust the Rio police here given the reputation they have, but the media down there is going to considerable lengths to deflect criticism of the city and the administration of the Games, it seems.
August 17th, 2016 at 1:39 PM ^
Lochte is about as sharp as a spoon so any account given by him I take with a very large grain of salt.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3741504/I-like-Ryan-Lochte-down…
'I was like, "whatever"': Ryan Lochte downplays gunpoint robbery outside Olympic Village as Rio officials increase security after latest violent incident.
Heh... yeah dude.. .gun in my face.. like... whaaateever!
August 17th, 2016 at 1:50 PM ^
Getting murkier? It was always murky. Everything about the story has always screamed "small lie made worse by telling bigger lie to cover for smaller lie." I've never seen a robbery where nothing of note seems to have been taken, and that's before we get to Lochte's flippant reaction to allegedly having a gun in his face. The likelihood of the group having the fortune of getting stuck up by the worst robbers ever is lower than low.
August 17th, 2016 at 2:02 PM ^
Lochte was guarding the young daughter of a wealthy businessman and his beautiful American wife. Lochte had given up on himself and on the world, but the girl reminded him that life was worth living. But then she was kidnapped, and Lochte assumed she was dead.
Feeling like he had nothing to lose, Lochte - with help from Christopher Walken - started a one-man war against the kidnappers and the corrupt cops who helped them. He blew them up in broad daylight and cut off their fingers to remind them of what they'd done. Then he learned that the girl was still alive. He did whatever he had to do to get answers about where she was.
He finally stirred up so much trouble that the kidnappers brought him the girl and offered her life for his. Lochte made the trade, and the girl was reunited with her mother. Lochte, who had been shot, then died in the kidnappers car before they could torture him.
At least that's my guess.
August 17th, 2016 at 2:08 PM ^
August 17th, 2016 at 2:09 PM ^
Bored at work?
August 17th, 2016 at 2:10 PM ^
That tracks, but how does he get back to the states before they are able to detain him? Walken has connections, but flying out of Rio without being caught and re-animating Ryan mid-flight seems like some Jason Bourne shit...
August 17th, 2016 at 2:12 PM ^
sounds plausible.
August 17th, 2016 at 2:17 PM ^
Watched Transporter 2 on Netflix last night did you?
August 17th, 2016 at 5:19 PM ^
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August 17th, 2016 at 3:20 PM ^
i think this is exactly what happened except for the fact that J-Lo's ex-husband orchestrated the kidnapping...
August 17th, 2016 at 2:08 PM ^
Ryan Lochte is to the Summer Games as Bode Miller is to the Winter Games.
Dude, bro.
August 17th, 2016 at 2:09 PM ^
olympic athlete over corrupt brazilian officials EXCEPT for Ryan Lochte. As it is, it's about as murky as it gets.
August 17th, 2016 at 2:10 PM ^
August 17th, 2016 at 2:17 PM ^
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August 17th, 2016 at 2:13 PM ^
To be fair, Lochte is so dumb he probably forgot to pay the cab fare and thought the guy was robbing him.
August 17th, 2016 at 2:19 PM ^
Sounds like the police are trying to save face. I doubt all 4 of them made this story up just for fun. But in the defense of the police nothing locte ever says makes much sense.
August 17th, 2016 at 2:19 PM ^
What does Lochte gain by lying here? He wasn't accused of any wrong doing.
Brazil, their police force, and the IOC are all proven liars. I'm going with Lochte here.
August 17th, 2016 at 3:39 PM ^
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August 17th, 2016 at 4:57 PM ^
I'm gonna go with the Evidence rather than Lochte or the Brazilian police force.
The evidence that has come out today is pretty damning for Lochte's story. Legitmently all the evidence from security cameras, interviews and timing that has come out has done nothing but gone against the Lochte's original story.
Now, I don't get why they would lie... legit that's the one part that I haven't been able to make any sense out of. But it sure as hell seems pretty clear that they've lied.
But I'm sure it's possible that he was robbed, they let him keep his 2K shoes and expensive watch, and that he picked up a new wallet from the time he was robbed and went back to the Olympic Village (which was 3 hours later than he claimed), and that everyone in the group got over the trama of the robbery in that time too.
August 17th, 2016 at 2:23 PM ^
I think this dude got a bunch of the bleach he used to turn his hair white, into his brain.
August 17th, 2016 at 2:31 PM ^
or a judge siezed Lochte's passport, yet somehow he made it home already. I was confused by this until I realized....HE SWAM.
August 17th, 2016 at 2:31 PM ^
Lochte makes my daughter's hamster seem like a rhodes scholar.
August 17th, 2016 at 2:31 PM ^
I guess I don't understand what motive Lochte would have to make the whole story up?
August 17th, 2016 at 2:42 PM ^
He called his mom to tell her and she told everyone else. The reason he lied is that he doesn't want people (and his mom) to know that he went to a brothel. There will be a lot of 6 year-olds asking mom why they can't idolize Ryan Lochte if he's found out to be at a brothel.
August 17th, 2016 at 2:50 PM ^
August 17th, 2016 at 2:53 PM ^
Todd Courser thinks that made up story was a good idea.