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Ryan Lochte Research Paper

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Ryan Lochte, a U.S. Olympic swimmer, created a false story about how him and three other U.S. Olympic swimmers were robbed at gunpoint last Sunday (8/14/16) in Rio de Janeiro. Lochte claimed that a few men pulled over the taxi the swimmers were traveling in and pretended to be police officers by showing a police badge to them. The men pulled out their guns and forced the other swimmers to get down on the ground, but Lochte refused to obey their commands, unlike Jack Conger, Gunnar Bentz, and Jimmy Feigen. One of the men placed a gun on Lochte’s head resulting in Lochte surrendering. The men stole his wallet and they stripped all the swimmers of their money. Lochte’s fictitious story got out through his mom. While Lochte was back in America,

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