This is beatiful. Everything is coming into focus. My own journey took me from Lochte believer, to thinking he was robbed while drunk af, to thinking Brazil was angry at him for not remembering details of the robbery bc he was drunk af, to thinking he's a dumbass trying to use a cover story, to thinking he’s a fully…

You’re semi-validated gloating is by far the worst part of today’s developments.

Well, you continue to be wrong about this not being a bad look for Brazil.

It cracks me up that you still think this was about bringing publicity.

Synchronized swimmers wouldn’t have had an issue getting their story straight.

This is all very weak “evidence” of a scandal. The gas station was the first story I heard, and it’s really just semantics on whether they were literally pulled over while driving or “pulled over” when they tried to leave the gas station. Having the gun at his head vs pointed at him can easily be chalked up to a…

This. If the only reasons that the Rio authorities have for seizing passports and pulling people off planes is that there were some inconsistencies in drunken eyewitness accounts, and that the group of said drunken individuals weren’t sufficiently traumatized by their ordeal, then, well....that would fit in very…

Why are Brazilian authorities pursuing this? As far as I know, the alleged victims haven’t accused anyone or sought any relief from the Brazilian justice system, so I don’t understand the course this is taking unless they’re investigating something else.

Let this be a lesson why you should never tell your mother anything.

As bufuddling as this is I have to remember that Lochte, while not the brightest bulb while sober, was drunk with his pals that night. Not an optimal condition for remembering details, especially for our dog paddling human Labradoodle. Watching the video the guys aren’t laughing, but Lochte slaps one guy with his…

This is super fucked up.

The idea that you can infer something from their behavior in this video is patently absurd.

Walk me through how pulling an olympian off a flight helps Brazil look good? They potentially filed a false report. Who gives a shit? This overreaction just seems petty, especially when it seems like other ARE being held up at gun point around town.

I’m only defending him and the other US swimmers because it seems ridiculous that Brazil should try to retain them in their country when they seemingly did nothing wrong and if anything, appear to be victims of a crime.

Well the truth really can only come from Ryans mouth.. nobody here on this forums can guess exactly what happened so why would any make a sugestion on what reason they had to make it up.. the longer we wait the more dirt we are bound to hear

Lochte said the muggers took their wallets but not their cell phones or credentials. To me looking at the video, it looks phones and credentials might be what they’re carrying. It’s certainly some conclusive smoking gun in the case. It’s guys walking through security putting down a black thing, which is what cell…

“If” they were corrupt? Brazilian police have a long history of corruption. Our cops do all sorts of illogical things when trying to hide their corruption. Why should the Brazilians be any different?

I just don’t know what it is they did. But I would assume it was pretty bad to be getting this kind of response.

Are you sure those are wallets? Looks like phones to me.

Everyone keeps saying this, but I don’t understand. Was there some sort of story going around that Lotche was with prostitutes or buying drugs? It doesn’t make sense to volunteer a story to cover up something bad if no one was accusing him of bad behavior to begin with.