I can think of plenty of reasons they would do this, and very few of don’t make the swimmers look bad. If I had to hazard a guess, Lochte was up to some dumb shit and the nice people he was transacting with didn’t play by the rules as expected. So he and his teammates described it as a robbery. (and, frankly, I’m not…

The cynic in me sees this as him being dopesick. Fame is one hell of a drug, and right now, Lochte is chasing. He has no Olympic narrative, and no post Olympic footprint. A couple of mentions about his hair, and really thats about it. His pre-Olympic stories about his adventures in online dating went no where. He has…

It’s not a joke to lie about getting robbed at gunpoint by cops. You think that if Russian swimmers pulled that stunt in New York people would just chuckle?

wait, you think Brazil is the one looking bad here? lol ok

well once they got the USOC involved... and then the FBI... that also involved authorities of Brazil. So yeah, they have much better things to focus on than investigating a crime that most likely didn’t happen, which is why these assholes should be punished for making up a story that wasted multiple resources form…