Ryan Lochte Admits He ‘Over-Exaggerated’ Rio Robbery Story
Source: Huff Post
WASHINGTON ― Ryan Lochte on Saturday said he exaggerated a story about being robbed at gunpoint in Rio de Janeiro, speaking in his first televised interview since large portions of his initial account were debunked.
“I over-exaggerated that story and if I never did that we wouldn’t be in this mess,” a newly brown-haired Lochte told Matt Lauer, a co-anchor of NBC’s “Today Show.” “It was my immature behavior.”
Excerpts of the interview aired during “NBC Nightly News” on Saturday evening and then later in the evening during the network’s Olympics coverage, but the full interview will appear Monday morning on the “Today Show.”
In a longer excerpt of the Lauer interview released later on Saturday evening, Lochte apologized profusely to the three swimmers out with him that night for returning to the United States and leaving them to face the consequences for his actions
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Too little, and ...much too late.
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using the NBC site. Glad I did! No commercials and it didn't have the hour delay of the broadcast TV version so I could go to bed earlier. 
My sisters have been using Comcast On Demand to catch things they wanted to see.
for quite awhile before the feed ended. I was cracking up! The camera kept trying to capture any "wardobe malfunctions"! 
Like a 12 year old who got caught shoplifting I thought he was going to cry. He said "over-exaggerated" like 15 times. 
An apology and admission of bad behavior isn't enough. He must break down in tears before the whole nation and be utterly humiliated. That's how we do things in America when it comes to our athletes and entertainers. It's not like they're human beings with faults and foibles just like the rest of us. They must be perfect, and when we learn they're not, they must be punished! 
...as the translator spoke with one of the Brazilian main networks. The translator (a local DJ) said that Lochte and the other swimmers didn't want the security guard to call the police so they offered to pay for the damages. So they paid the $50 and the money was given to the store owner, who did not press charges because he had been paid.
In the interview, one of the security guards admited that he pulled the gun, and told the swimmers to get down, only after an angry Lochte came towards his direction (supposedly he had two swimmers detained and Lochte and another swimmer were leaving the property by foot until Lochte returned after seeing the other two with the one guard). The guard said he didn't understand English and that Lochte (and other swimmers) were bigger and taller than him, so he pulled out the gun.
The other guard saw what was happening and pulled his gun as well. The DJ offered to translate when he saw what was going on.
Either the translator did a shitty job and created more confusion between the guards and the swimmers or Lochte is lying.
The thing is that, so far, only Lochte has been caught lying. Well, sorry, let me correct myself. Not lying but exaggerating. 
I'm a recovering alcoholic and had to make amends with a lot of people so maybe I'm more reluctant to join the lynch mob because of that. 
The seething anger that people have over this wanting to crucify the guy seems weird to me.
FWIW, my boss is director of a major government department in the city where I live. Shortly after starting the job, he was arrested for assaulting someone in a bar and got DUI on the way home. He's not white and got to keep his job, even though he should set a good example as supervisor of hundreds of employees. While I've been there, a number of my co workers have been arrested for things like DUI, leaving the scene and failure to appear and who knows what else I haven't heard about. None of them are white, either and they're still on the job. Some have gotten more than one DUI in the last two years. One got his second before he went to court for his first! None of them are white. All are still there, some of them supervising other employees. Apparently this privilege I hear so much about doesn't just extend to evil white people. It sure doesn't appear that it's as hard as you say it is to keep a job despite bad behavior. I'm personally glad to know they didn't lose their jobs. Even those of us that make mistakes, and make them again, are worthy of forgiveness.
Anyway, you really don't have to recount all the particulars of the incident to me. I've read the same reports you did. I'm just not all that upset over it, especially now that they are all home and Lochte apologized. Them being robbed at gunpoint and the $11,000 bribe Rio officials got bothers me more than anything else that happened. Hopefully that old man that was scalping tickets will be able to get out of that third world dungeon they are holding him in before he dies.
and you didn't include a link. 
Isn't this irritating, having someone tell you what you can post?
A USA TODAY Sports videographer who visited the bathroom Thursday found no damage to soap dispensers and mirrors and said none of those items appeared to be new. Some media accounts suggested the men had broken down a door, which USA TODAY Sports also did not observe.
Bentz said in his statement that he believes there are surveillance videos shot from different angles that have not been released. He also said he did not see anyone damage the bathroom or even enter it.
Of the videos available, including footage from a camera trained on the restroom doors, a review by USA TODAY Sports does not find any showing the swimmers going near the bathrooms. They are not seen entering or coming out of them on those recordings.
If it wasn't the gun waving guards that lied, it was the cops or other Rio officials. I suspect it was the guards that lied about the bathrooms hoping to increase their take from the swimmers.
They're crooks who stole from athletes *at gunpoint* at the Olympics and it certainly wasn't the first case of that happening during the games, either. They've ripped off US athletes for over $11,000.00 and they intend to scam more out of them. All for a torn poster.
If you are going to claim I'm posting false information, point it out. And don't try to browbeat me over what I post.
Ok, I'm done. You don't want to show what in the article supports your claim that the guards are crooks.
This is going in circles and I am wasting my time here. Not sure if you are messing with me because this makes not sense. If you are messing with me so I will write back then you got me. The joke is on me.
His major in college was sports management. He's also interested in appearing on Dancing With the Stars. 
But I never heard the media mention it was unusual that he left the olympics before the closing
