Sport Olympics: The curious case of the swimmers Olympics
Ryan Lochte and teammates Gunnar Bentz, Jack Conger, and Jimmy Feigen were returning to the athletes” village by taxi early on Sunday morning when they were robbed at gunpoint by assailants who identified themselves as police. Since then, Lochte left Brazil for home, as scheduled, but the three other swimmers were stopped from exiting the country. Bentz and Conger were stopped from boarding a flight on Wednesday night, and a Brazilian judge ordered that the passports of Lochte and Feigen be seized as police are still investigating the robbery allegations. Brazillian officials who interviewed Bentz and Conger at the airport for more than three hours said they were also holding their passports, ESPN reports. The athletes, who had a Brazilian lawyer present and representatives from the USOC and the American consulate present, chose not to speak during the interview. NBC spoke to Lochte on Wednesday, and the swimmer backtracked on his initial comments made to the network on Sunday. The bar...