Ryan Lochte says ‘immature behaviour’ got him into a mess

“It was my immature behavior”.

According to the Associated Press, Blackmun said on Sunday that Lochte’s story harmed Brazil by taking the attention away from the 2016 Summer Olympics.

The 32-year-old acknowledged it was his “immature behaviour” that got him and three team-mates into a controversy that cast a shadow over final days of the Games. Instead, the Brazilian police investigation revealed that Lochte and his teammates had been involved in the vandalization of a local gas station after leaving a party in Rio.

Lauer asked Lochte why he had maintained they were “victims” in his statements to police and to the media.

“Whether you call it a robbery or extortion or us paying just for the damages, we don’t know”, Lochte said. He added, “All we know is that there was a gun pointed in our direction and we were demanded to give money”. “Regardless of the worldwide attention that this case has had and the false testimony, I say that from a legal point of view. the guards carried out a crime”.

By now, the tale surrounding US swimmer Ryan Lochte has become a global phenomenon: The initial story of his being robbed at gunpoint, the multiple contradictory reports and, ultimately, his admission that he greatly exaggerated – and fabricated – parts of his story.

Lochte, with freshly-dyed brown hair, sat down with Lauer to say anything other than “I lied about being robbed” in an interview that had extreme “disappointed parent talking to an evasive child” vibes. Speaking to NBC’s Matt Lauer he was asked why he had initially exaggerated his story. Bentz said that he and his three teammates “foolishly relieved ourselves on the backside of the building behind some bushes”, but that things really got out of hand when “Ryan pulled to the ground a framed metal advertisement that was loosely anchored to the brick wall”.

“I’m embarrassed for myself… I was still intoxicated”, he said. I was still intoxicated. He also gave an interview to Brazil’s main broadcaster Globo on Saturday to apologize for his actions. “Because I over-exaggerated that story”.

It was only after police declared the story bogus – saying that the four had only been detained by security and made to pay compensation for their drunken vandalization of a gas station bathroom – that Lochte finally came clean.

In the interview that aired Saturday night, Lauer pointed to those two interviews and how Lochte had not told “the whole truth”. There is still more I want to accomplish.

Even though the Olympian confessed his “stupid mistake” and said sorry to Brazilians, he was shy of calling his narrative a lie.