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#BREAKING Brazil sources: #RyanLochte + 3 swimmers fabricated robbery story. Video shows swimmer "fighting" w/security at gas station @GMA

https://twitter.com/mattgutmanABC/status/766268427661029376

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3325617&forum_id=2#31214340)

Using video footage and testimony from witnesses, Brazilian police have determined that the incident involved damage to a bathroom door at a gas station where the swimmers stopped in the early hours of Sunday on the way back from a party to the Athletes’ Village.

“Unfortunately, the swimmers told one lie after another,” said a Brazilian police official who had reviewed the video images. He declined to be identified because the investigation is ongoing. “We’ve been able to determine that there was no armed assault.”

The case made global headlines after the gold medalists Ryan Lochte claimed that men posing as police officers had pulled over their taxi, and that an assailant had put a cocked gun to his forehead before taking his money. He later altered his account, saying the taxi stopped at a gas station so they could use the bathroom.

A different description of events is emerging from Brazilian authorities on Thursday. Officials say that the taxi carrying the swimmers stopped at a Shell gas station around 6 a.m., shortly after the men exited a party at Club France, an Olympics hospitality house established here in the upscale Lagoa district.

At the gas station, which is located in Barra da Tijuca, on the route to the athletes’ village, the swimmers went to the bathroom. In the process, according to the account by investigators, damage was done to the bathroom door and a discussion ensued with the manager and a security guard.

Someone at the gas station called the police, but by the time a police car arrived at the scene the swimmers were gone. Witnesses, including a person who offered to translate for the swimmers, said that they paid money to the manager before leaving.

The episode has touched on sensitive issues of sovereignty and nationalism around the Rio Olympics, while focusing enormous scrutiny on the perceptions of danger in a society where many Brazilians themselves often lament their exposure to alarming levels of violent crime and police corruption.

“This incident has caused so much damage to Rio’s brand abroad that I think Brazilians deserve a clear, consistent account of what happened,” said Brian Winter, vice president for policy at the Americas Society and Council of the Americas.

The entire episode, Mr. Winter said, “has tapped into one of Brazilians’ biggest pet peeves – gringos who treat their country like a third-rate Spring Break destination where you can lie to the cops and get away with it.”

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3325617&forum_id=2#31214831)

"How are you enjoying Brazil?"

"This place is crazy, like last night we got robbed by cops at gun point! Took my wallet and everything. It's crazy here."

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3325617&forum_id=2#31215427)

Ryan Lochte On Why He Lied To NBC About Being Robbed: "I Was Still Intoxicated"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3325617&forum_id=2#31233277)

http://summergames.ap.org/article/2-lochte-teammates-robbery-probe-pulled-plane

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3325617&forum_id=2#31215543)

Because he has an IQ of 80 maximum: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dlyCTswYH0

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3325617&forum_id=2#31215680)

what defines me? ...... ryan lochte!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3325617&forum_id=2#31221105)

He literally just cost himself millions.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3325617&forum_id=2#31215732)