Yeah, since the initial report was from his mom, he could have even gotten out of it by saying something like “We were drunk and lost a bunch of stuff, we thought we might have gotten pick pocketed or something, she may have misunderstood me and thought I was saying I got robbed, you know how moms worry, but we may…

Yup. Rio, where the cops aren’t even competent enough to handle basic street crime, and are in fact oftentimes the criminals themselves, but hey, we caught a couple of moron dudebros acting like dudebros and lying about it, let’s pat ourselves on the back for our wicked skillz while drug gangs continue lobbing…

Nevermind the actual crime that is happening in Rio. How about the actual crime in Brazil’s government? I’m sure the Brazilian government is fucking LOVING this distraction, and people obsessed with some moron dudebro swimmer acting like a moron dudebro swimmer are the sheeple enabling it.

Bring embarrassment? What embarrassment? Rio is violent and corrupt, no matter what noises come out of Ryan Lochte’s dumbass mouth.

Well that is basically true. Some Australian swimmers were just robbed. And the cops and government in general in Brazil is crooked as shit.

I don’t know what Lochte’s thinking, but I’m sure the other three are thinking, “FUCK Ryan Lochte!” If he weren’t such an idiot they’d be home by now.

So many things he could’ve done differently. Could’ve immediately called his mom when she started blabbing and been like “Yo mom don’t narc on me, I’ll explain later.” Brazil doesn’t get embarrassed by the incident, it’s all a misunderstanding, oh Ryan Lochte what a character.

Corrupt City/Country/ Organization catches US Athletes (Maybe our dumbest one) in a lie. While crime is happening all around them, and you feel full validated about what exactly?

To be fair, he probably didn’t expect his mom to narc on him.

Like it’s beyond the pale that they were robbed by crooked cops in Brazil.

So Lochte will probably be fine career wise. Worst case scenario, he gets a ban from USA Swimming, but he’s 32 anyway and this was probably his last hurrah. He probably gets a slap on the wrist from them though since he is one of their greatest swimmers ever. The rest are probably expendable.

I’m not saying that assholes, American or otherwise, should be allowed to go to a foreign country and vandalize shit and lie about it, but damn, for international news this is hella unimportant and uninteresting. Like, I’m not gonna defend Lochte, and I know why it’s news (Olympics + everyone on edge about Rio + Ryan…

Long time/First time of your comments on Lochtegate. You, I, and everyone posting on any story about this is feeding into exactly what Brazil/Rio/IOC want from this which is distracting from actual crime that is happening in Rio.

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.

Ryan Lochte and his swimming team buddies being douchebags doesn’t change the fact that Brazil is one corrupt-as-fuck country with a corrupt-as-fuck police force, which is why everyone was willing to buy the original story in the first place.

I will eat crow and acknowledge I was pretty much convinced these guys had done nothing wrong. What I won’t do is back down from my comment that this has garnered way more attention than it deserves from the Brazilian/Rio police when taken into context of other issues happening in the city and country. It seems like a…

apparently ryan’s just that big of an idiot . . . seriously, this is amazing. if they hadn’t made up the story of being robbed, would anyone have ever heard about any of this?

It continues to be stupid for them to have made up a robbery story to over up for an incident that likely wouldn’t have become public anyway. That’s the last time I project my own common sense onto dedicated morons.

I understand your concern but don’t know why you’re implicating me in all this.