It’s bizarre. I just saw the tape that the judge cited as them “joking around” and not being traumatized enough to have been robbed.

Their police rob olympic swimmers at gun point, then seize the victim’s passports so they can be held until they recant their stories. Yes, Brazil looks very bad.

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

Yes.

That was my thought. The favelas explode damn near every night but they’re hellbent on questioning olympic athletes?

Because butthurt

Corrupt Latin and South American legal systems have never had qualms about locking tourists up, and then milking them dry financially while extracting a metaphorical pound of flesh. It’s going to be interesting watching that institution butt heads with an IOC that is desperately trying to have the legacy of these…

Is lying to NBC an crime in Brazil? Don’t these dipshit police have real crimes to investigate?

Why would the brazilian government even try to pursue this further? Frankly it just makes the country look even worse and petty IMO.

The first. The latter is perfectly fair, provided she’s naturally producing the testosterone.

“It’s not fair, we can’t compete with her innate genetic advantages!”

I think the fact that there is a warrant out for him after telling the story explains why he was hesitant to do so.

Nope you’re right. On second thought, letting US athletes fall victim to the ceaseless institutionalized corruption in Rio and Brazil is a desirable outcome. My apologies!

Had a gun pulled on me and others while playing pick-up basketball. The guy threatened everyone then left...and we just picked up the game where we left off.

Or the fact that he says they were robbed by a cop.

yes, we know how smart you are for using that phrase

It might have to do with being out after a curfew, or out drinking, against the advice or orders of the US Swim Team. Not “trouble” like being sent to jail, but trouble like “What the hell did we tell you about going off on your own in Rio?” from a coach.

I’m glad that Lochte and Feigen(apparently) are back on US soil. None of us know what really happened obviously but regardless, nothing good comes of two US Olympic athletes being ushered through the cesspool of corruption (and literal cesspool) that is Rio and its criminal justice system.

I got robbed once with two friends while walking to the Hell-Osco on Milwaukee Avenue in Chicago. Following that ordeal, what started as a grocery run turned into a marathon beer and shot session (with many free rounds when we retold the hold up story). Adrenaline works in strange ways.

In high school he had great speed but his coaches grew frustrated due to his Exodus 20:15 approach to base running.