{"id":16594,"date":"2016-08-19T15:22:44","date_gmt":"2016-08-19T15:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=16594"},"modified":"2016-08-19T15:22:44","modified_gmt":"2016-08-19T15:22:44","slug":"lochte-set-to-soil-a-sparkling-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=16594","title":{"rendered":"Lochte set to soil a sparkling record"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/ryan-lochte-robbery-1024.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16596\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/ryan-lochte-robbery-1024-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"US swimmer Ryan Lochte holds a press conference on August 3, 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, two days ahead of the opening ceremony of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. \/ AFP \/ Martin BUREAU        (Photo credit should read MARTIN BUREAU\/AFP\/Getty Images)\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/ryan-lochte-robbery-1024-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/ryan-lochte-robbery-1024-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/ryan-lochte-robbery-1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ryan Lochte must not have been content\u00a0to just be known as one of the world&#8217;s greatest swimmers of his era.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, no. He allegedly sought to add something like <em>this<\/em> to an obituary that will be written about him &#8230; eventually:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ryan Lochte, a multiple gold-medal-winning Olympic swimmer, <em>who got caught up in a controversy after competing in the 2016 Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro &#8230; &#8220;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s how it will be written, or in words to that effect.<\/p>\n<p>Lochte and three of his swimming teammates reported to police that they were robbed at gunpoint. It appears to have been a bogus story.<\/p>\n<p>Now the once-glorious American athlete has been indicted by Brazilian authorities for filing a false police report and faces possible extradition back to Brazil to face the consequences of his actions.<\/p>\n<p>The new story that&#8217;s developing suggests that the swimmers were returning from an all-night bender in Rio, stopped in a gas station to relieve themselves and started trashing the place.<\/p>\n<p>Now that one of his reputations &#8212; his athletic skill &#8212; has been all but obliterated, another one is getting traction: he&#8217;s an overgrown frat boy. He&#8217;s been known to have acted badly in public before.<\/p>\n<p>One Brazilian Olympic official reportedly sought to excuse the swimmers&#8217; behavior by saying &#8220;that&#8217;s what boys do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Boys? Lochte is a 32-year-old allegedly <em>grown man<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>This story is beginning to sicken me.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ryan Lochte must not have been content\u00a0to just be known as one of the world&#8217;s greatest swimmers of his era. Oh, no. He allegedly sought to add something like this to an obituary that will be written about him &#8230; eventually: &#8220;Ryan Lochte, a multiple gold-medal-winning Olympic swimmer, who got caught up in a controversy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=16594\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lochte set to soil a sparkling record<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[3960,6501],"class_list":["post-16594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports-news","tag-rio-olympics","tag-ryan-lochte"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16594"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16597,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16594\/revisions\/16597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}