LochteGate

This is very unfortunate...many are very forgiving.

"The four American swimmers who have claimed they were victims of an armed robbery in Rio were allegedly the ones causing trouble that night and fabricated their account of the incident, the chief of civil police said Thursday.

Although officials did admit that local security guards pulled a gun on Ryan Locthe and his fellow swimmers and also extracted about $50 in cash from them.

'Right now, as we speak, what the police can affirm — there was no robbery the way it was reported or claimed by the athletes,' said Chief Fernando Veloso, speaking in Portuguese at a press conference Thursday. 'They were not victims of the criminal actions that they claimed they were.'

Veloso claimed Surveillance video plus witness accounts confirmed the swimmers, including 12-time Olympic medalist Lochte, damaged a bathroom door at a gas station in the Barra da Tijuca neighborhood before they returned to the athletes' village early Sunday.

The athletes had told officials and media outlets, including TODAY, that they had been robbed at gunpoint. But, as inconsistencies in their story emerged, speculation rose."

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