Lochte's robbery story doesn't hold water. Update: Brazilian police say they destroyed gas sation bathroom and lied to cover it

There are videos of the station's cctv on the brazilian media already. Clearly the swimmers were up to no good.

The link below includes a video of the guys at the gas station.

http://www.si.com/olympics/ryan-lochte-robbed-rio-police-team-usa-swimming-timeline

Thursday morning — Gas station owner speaks, video is released

The owner of the gas station told Brazilian outlet O Globo that the swimmers vandalized and urinated on the store.

Globo TV also released security footage from the gas station. The video shows Lochte and the swimmers attempting to get into a cab that was not theirs, then after finding the right taxi, being asked to get out of the car by gas station security. The swimmers then sit on the curb as they talk to security. According to Globo, security used a gun to make sure the swimmers would not leave before police arrived and the swimmers agreed to pay for the damage they caused.

Thier story wrote:

Why did they go to a gas station in the opposite direction of the village to use the bathroom. The club they were at had bathrooms. What was wrong with those? Something stinks, and it isn't the gas station restroom.

It's called drugs.

Another Version wrote:

The link below includes a video of the guys at the gas station.

http://www.si.com/olympics/ryan-lochte-robbed-rio-police-team-usa-swimming-timeline

Thursday morning — Gas station owner speaks, video is released

The owner of the gas station told Brazilian outlet O Globo that the swimmers vandalized and urinated on the store.

Globo TV also released security footage from the gas station. The video shows Lochte and the swimmers attempting to get into a cab that was not theirs, then after finding the right taxi, being asked to get out of the car by gas station security. The swimmers then sit on the curb as they talk to security. According to Globo, security used a gun to make sure the swimmers would not leave before police arrived and the swimmers agreed to pay for the damage they caused.

I saw the police interview live, and the police captain said, with all letters, that the security guys acted accordingly and correctly. no gun to the head nonsense, just adult athletes behaving like spoiled teenagers. now they face 2 charges instead of 1 because of the lying that followed. it's quite possible the authorities will make an example out of them.

No access to the wsj link.

Casa Franca surveilance video shows the swimmers leaving Casa Franca at 5:45 AM, even though the swimmers said they left at 4 AM.

The gas station video indicates the swimmers were there at 6:0? AM.

The Olympic village was about 30-40 minutes away. They go through security there at 6:56 AM.

So why are people on letsrun talking about an hour at the gas station?

somebloke wrote:

It's quite possible the authorities will make an example out of them.

A good example is requiring them to pay for the damage they did, and to spend a day cleaning public restrooms in Rio.

The moral is, don't make up a false robbery story. At home, or traveling. Really, really dumb.

timeline wrote:

No access to the wsj link.

Try this SI link.

timeline wrote:

No access to the wsj link.

Casa Franca surveilance video shows the swimmers leaving Casa Franca at 5:45 AM, even though the swimmers said they left at 4 AM.

The gas station video indicates the swimmers were there at 6:0? AM.

The Olympic village was about 30-40 minutes away. They go through security there at 6:56 AM.

So why are people on letsrun talking about an hour at the gas station?

Because they said they left at 4 am. Casa Franca closes at 5 am. The 5:45 time has something wrong with it. Most likely, the video time should be 4:45.

video here:

http://g1.globo.com/rio-de-janeiro/olimpiadas/rio2016/noticia/2016/08/video-do-posto-de-gasolina-mostra-confusao-com-nadadores-americanos.html

those two on the right are policeman commenting the case

somebloke wrote:

video here:

http://g1.globo.com/rio-de-janeiro/olimpiadas/rio2016/noticia/2016/08/video-do-posto-de-gasolina-mostra-confusao-com-nadadores-americanos.html

those two on the right are policeman commenting the case

How would you like to sit across the interrogation table from those two guys in some dirty room located on the outskirts of Rio?

I hope we extradite Lochte back down there.

Is there any Olympic precedent for revoking medals ex eventu due to bad behavior or criminal charges during an Olympics?

Not saying that should be done. Just wondering if there is any precedent for a situation somewhat like this.

In the video (5:14 to 5:17 mark) something large and white suddenly appears on the floor of the restroom. Likely a sink.

Video shows nothing. They calmly walk out. Doesn't look like they trashed anything. Swimmers taking blame for previous damage to their facility? Shake-down?

Actually, if you watch the video on that Globo link above, their story isn't too far from the truth.

After apparently breaking the door of a bathroom, they get into a taxi. The taxi is stopped by a uniformed security guard waving a gun around. He takes them out of the taxi and over to the side of the parking lot where he either pushes Lochte to the ground or Lochte falls over. The swimmers actually do put their hands up like Lochte said in his interview and it looks like they are sat down on a curb.

I am assuming the guy makes them empty their wallets at gun point and then lets them leave. I am assuming this based on the video that you cannot hear and can barely see.

I can see where they wouldn't want to tell anyone about it since they probably felt at fault for breaking a bathroom door and being drunken jerks. It wasn't the way we imagined it, but surely the security guard isn't allowed to make people empty their wallets at gunpoint as he did. It was a robbery that was committed after the USA swimmer vandalized a bathroom.

still more to story? wrote:

Video shows nothing. They calmly walk out. Doesn't look like they trashed anything. Swimmers taking blame for previous damage to their facility? Shake-down?

Wrong. The video shows a large white object dropped to the floor of the restroom while the boys were inside.

Lots of lessons.

1. Don't pee on the floor, even if it is a gas station bathroom.

2. Don't damage someone else's property.

3. Realize that almost every move you make today is being video'ed somewhere by someone.

4. Don't lie or embellish.

5. Certainly don't lie or embellish to authorities.

6. Definitely certainly don't lie or embellish to authorities in a foreign country.

7. Most assuredly definitely certainly don't lie or embellish to authorities in a foreign country in a way that makes them look bad.

Truth Story wrote:

It was a robbery that was committed after the USA swimmer vandalized a bathroom.

No, the gas station people were going to call the police. The swimmers bribed their way out of that and handed them cash to pay for the damage they caused.

Something broken wrote:

Wrong. The video shows a large white object dropped to the floor of the restroom while the boys were inside.

I didn't see that in a video yet.

So is it like a urinal fell off the wall and broke?

So the gas station people would be thinking, These drunk foreigners come in and break our urinal. They should pay for this. Let's call the police.

The swimmers would be thinking, That urinal was shoddy and we were just trying to flush it, and it fell and broke and got urine everywhere. And they don't think they ought to pay for it since it was probably a rundown bathroom anyway. But they don't want the police to come so they're forced to pay cash for a urinal that was already broken and they think they got "robbed" or taken advantage of.

And then they embellish the story so the security guard with a gun is fake police taking their cash.

Another Version wrote:

The link below includes a video of the guys at the gas station.

http://www.si.com/olympics/ryan-lochte-robbed-rio-police-team-usa-swimming-timeline

Thursday morning — Gas station owner speaks, video is released

The owner of the gas station told Brazilian outlet O Globo that the swimmers vandalized and urinated on the store.

Globo TV also released security footage from the gas station. The video shows Lochte and the swimmers attempting to get into a cab that was not theirs, then after finding the right taxi, being asked to get out of the car by gas station security. The swimmers then sit on the curb as they talk to security. According to Globo, security used a gun to make sure the swimmers would not leave before police arrived and the swimmers agreed to pay for the damage they caused.

Thanks for posting that. The swimmer clearly have their hands up, so the security guard most likely had a gun out pointed at them.

They were in a foreign country with a language they don't understand unfamiliar with what was happening. They may have really believed they were being robbed vs paying for damage they caused to a bathroom door.