US swimmers quit Brazil after admitting to inventing mugging
US Olympic authorities apologized to Brazil on Thursday as two US swimmers were allowed to go home having retracted a fabricated story about being mugged in Rio.
A third American swimmer who is still in Brazil can leave the country after he paid a donation to an “institution” of nearly $11,000, US broadcaster NBC reported his lawyer as saying early Friday.
Four US swimmers, including six gold medal hero Ryan Lochte, have been at the centre of a media storm since claiming they were held up at gunpoint after leaving a party in the early hours of Sunday.
A third American swimmer who is still in Brazil can leave the country after he paid a donation to an “institution” of nearly $11,000, US broadcaster NBC reported his lawyer as saying early Friday.
Four US swimmers, including six gold medal hero Ryan Lochte, have been at the centre of a media storm since claiming they were held up at gunpoint after leaving a party in the early hours of Sunday.
