Oh my God, that's horrifying.

And let's be honest, there's no way Lochte doesn't pay him back for this right?

Most US athletes don't except the reward for winning Gold because of the taxes. It's not a tax on the actual Gold Medal, its a tax on the cash reward from the USOC.

Ha I remember those. I think I lied and said like 5 hours was like 15 and my mom signed off on it for me.

I think the simplest explanation is that Lochte, who is not a very smart person, lied to his mom like a teenager trying to get out of trouble. He probably never meant for anything to go public, he just didn’t want his mom to get mad. The problem came about when Mrs. Lochte acted exactly how you’d expect a mom to act…

I knew he was dumb, but I never believed he was THIS dumb.

This is the funniest thing about it to me. There have been numerous reports about of shit happening (including more robberies), but this is the one they go hard after.

Because the street criminals were probably just trying to score a quick few bucks. The smaller the crime the easier it is to get away with it. They’ve probably pulled this scheme off hundreds of times without a hitch, but this time they happened to rob a star like Lochte. That’s why this thing blew up. Plus in a…

The USOC know where they are, just the media and Rio police don't. The swim team moved out of the Olympic village after they were done competing. The police came to the village to question them, but they were gone.

This is what I find funny. There have been a few other stories of robberies, but they were no name coaches or assistants of small countries. I didn’t hear anything on them having their passports taken or being forced to stay. But now that a big name athlete from the US is involved Rio is actually going to make an…

I don’t understand why she would say she didn’t “think they would go far in the tournament” when Sweden was already in the semi’s. They literally had to win one of their next two matches to get a medal.

You know there's more medals in track and field than in swimming right? Bolt's just never bothered to do anything other than the two shortest events.

That doesn’t make it any easier to win them. Phelps in 08 has to swim 17 times to win those 8 golds and set 7 world records in the process. And the thing people ignore is that with all of those events comes several different disciplines. Phelps had to train for 6 different events, and beat people who trained for 1.…

I just want to say that as someone who knows swimming and follows it very closely, the swimming predictions in that article on all the events were garbage. Not necessarily this one, because Simone pulled off an amazing upset, but most of them were terrible. I mean you didn’t even have Phelps winning a single…

My brother and I were talking after the race and decided this was probably the best race of the Olympics. Everything Ledecky and Phelps have done has been amazing but it was all kind of expected. Ryan Murphy has been spectacular to win two golds in the back events, and there have been a lot of shockers getting silver…

The swimming is actually live because somehow NBC convinced the Olympics to swim their finals at 11 PM local time.

Is that you Goose?

Thank you for explaining this. As fun as the overhyped narrative was (and seriously NBC WAY over hyped this, Phelps doesn't care that much about Le Clos) this would be a ridiculous thing to try and pull off in an actual, not to mention there's no way Phelps could be sure to make it happen.

Ok but canoeing is one of those sports you can compete in 7 or 8 Olympics for. You can’t do that in swimming. Last night Phelps became the oldest man to ever win an individual gold at 31 and he’s the only man to ever win medals in 4 Olympics. Swimmers work against a clock that many of the other sports don’t have to.…

To be completely fair the swim itself was ugly as fuck. His first turn was good, but his second wall was way too long and his third turn was shorted. Plus he had another ugly finish with that half stroke. It kind of makes it more impressive because I’ve seen someone screw up so many times in a race at that level and…