Ryan Lochte and teammates will face punishment over Rio robbery scandal

Ryan Lochte was counting on his success in the Olympics in Rio to be a springboard for a post-Olympic career filled with endorsements.

“[The people of Rio] put on a great Games”, Lochte told Lauer.

Lochte then admitted he was drunk from a night out when he exaggerated his story. “‘We are victims. And we’re happy that we’re safe.’ In the police press conference, they said, ‘Not victims. The things that you do are going to be magnified, and the mistakes that you make are going to be really … they’re going to have a light shine on them in a way that’s going to make it very, very hard for you to overcome”. “I wish I could feel sorry for them”. Whether you call it a robbery, whether you call it extortion.

“That’s why I’m taking full responsibility for it, is because I overexaggerated that story and if I had never done that, we wouldn’t be in this mess”, said Lochte in an interview with NBC television, the peroxide colour washed out of his hair. “They did everything. And my immature, intoxicated behavior tarnished that a little”, Lochte said.

Last week, Bentz, Conger and Feigen returned to the USA after providing statements to Brazilian authorities.

He continued: “Like, we don’t know”.

In a previous statement, Lochte has apologized for his behavior in a statement and said that he was traumatized by being out in a foreign country with a language barrier and having a stranger point a gun at him and demand money. His story soon unraveled and authorities discovered that Lochte paid an armed security guard for damages he and his teammates made to a gas station bathroom after a night of drinking.

While he was the only one of the four swimmers to return home before their passports had been seized by a judge in Brazil, Lochte acknowledged that although his teammates Jack Conger and Gunnar Bentz had not caused any damage, they still had been removed from their flight home. Most notably, he stated that the gun had not been held against his head and that the event had occurred at a gas station. Conger also revealed that he and Lochte had urinated behind the gas station. “It was my immature behavior”.

“We are going to have further action on this when we get back to the United States”.

The International Olympic Committee has set up a disciplinary commission to determine if the swimmers will face any punishment.