Matt Hazlett/Getty Images(CHARLOTTE, N.C.) — Embattled American Olympian swimmer Ryan Lochte returned home to Charlotte, North Carolina, Saturday as fallout from the scandal of a robbery he allegedly falsely reported continued.
Lochte claimed during the games that he and three other swimmers were held up at gunpoint after leaving a party.
But police said that the story was a fabrication and that the Olympians were not robbed and were not victims. Rather, they alleged that the Olympians vandalized a bathroom at a gas station.
Police in Rio de Janeiro recommended that Lochte and his teammate James Feigen be charged with false reporting. Feigen donated approximately $11,000 to charity to avoid prosecution.
Lochte’s two other teammates, Jack Conger and Gunnar Bentz, returned home after giving statements to police and allege that Lochte pulled a poster off the gas station wall, sparking a confrontation with armed guards.
Lochte has apologized for his behavior in a statement and said that he was traumatized by being out in a foreign country with a language barrier and having a stranger point a gun at him and demand money.
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