Swimmer Gunnar Bentz apologizes, says footage is missing from gas station tapes

Feigen did not join Gunnar Bentz and Jack Conger when they left Thursday night because he was ordered to donate nearly $11,000 to a local sports charity before charges against him would be dropped.

A police source said Feigen’s passport would be released once he made the payment and presented a receipt to authorities.

Ryan Lochte may face serious repercussions from his involvement in an altercation at a gas station in Rio de Janeiro last Sunday. Ultimately, Bentz said he and Feigen paid the equivalent of about $50.

“Both guards pointed their guns at us and yelled at us to sit on a nearby sidewalk”, Bentz said.

Shifting accounts in TV interviews and social media posts.

On Friday, Lochte apologised for the way he handled claims about the robbery, which caused outrage across Brazil.

The six-time Olympic gold medalist is finally commenting after this has now turned into a scandal. But he said he and three fellow swimmers faced a “traumatic” situation that involved a language barrier and a stranger pointing a gun at them. In everything I do, I am representing my family, my country and my school.

The 32-year-old, who is in the midst of an worldwide incident after claiming that he and three fellow swimmers were robbed at gunpoint while in Rio de Janeiro to compete at the 2016 Olympics, has been accused of lying by Brazilian authorities.

But Rio police said the story was fabricated. This was when they attempted to leave, but were asked to get out of their taxi by the gas station’s two security guards. “Through the interpreter, one of the guards said that we needed to pay them in order to leave”, he recalled.

A day after United States swimmer Gunnar Bentz released a statementapologizing and providing his account of a late-night incident at a Brazilian gas station, teammate Jack Conger released his own statement. Authorities brought three of them in for questioning, Bentz and Conger having been pulled off a plane bound for the United States. As Brazilian police investigated his robbery claim, and eventually held his teammates for questioning while they sorted out his story, he had tweeted he meant to dye it back.

They said one of the swimmers had vandalized a gas station after the group stopped the taxi there to use a bathroom.

Police said in a statement on Facebook that that Feigen had agreed to make a contribution of 35,000 reals (nearly $11,000) to a Brazilian charity organization.

Lochte, a 12-time Olympic medalist, Conger and Bentz were on the 4×200 freestyle relay team that won gold, and Feigen was a member of the gold-winning 4×100 freestyle relay team.

“It was hours after the incident happened (when he first told the story to NBC’s Billy Bush)”.

Feigen is still resolving his charges before returning to the U.S.

“Bye, bye friends that’s OK”, Deluz said to the men and the athletes left, according to his statement. He said that the focus of the Games should now turn back to the athletes who are still competing as the Games near their conclusion this weekend.

However, police called this a lie, and Rio’s mayor said on Friday he had “pity and contempt” for the swimmers.