![]() ![]() ![]() I was like, if I keep going, I'm going to wind up dead. Along with Natalie Coughlin, Dara Torres, and Jenny Thompson, he is the second-most decorated swimmer in Olympic history measured by total number of medals, behind only Michael Phelps. "I was always getting in trouble, I was drinking too much, my head was not in the right spot. Ryan Steven Lochte ( / lkti / LOK-tee born August 3, 1984) is an American professional swimmer and 12-time Olympic medalist. "It was just one bad thing after another that was happening, and I was just on a spiral staircase going down, down, down," he said. This prompted another dark period for the athlete. Then, in 2018, Lochte faced another suspension, this time for 14 months, after getting an IV of B12, due to the volume of the infusion, which exceeded the USADA's permitted levels. The thing that got me the most was little kids being like 'I used to look up to you and now I don't.' That's what got me." I shouldn't have gone on social media, and I did, and I was getting death threats, being like 'you need to die, go kill yourself, you're scum.' Just the worst of the worst. I got home and I couldn't turn on the TV without seeing my face on there. "The thing I hate the most is it happened during the Olympics and it took away these other athletes' glory," he said. He also shared how the prolonged backlash to "Lochtegate" affected him. In an interview with Graham Bensinger, Lochte clarified that aside from the one lie about the gun (it was not pointed at his head, but at his chest from around 4 feet away), he did not fabricate any of the events, and accepted responsibility for his part in the scandal. Following the scandal, dubbed "Lochtegate" by the press, Lochte was suspended from competing for 10 months, and lost all of his major endorsement deals. However, conflicting statements from witnesses ultimately led to Lochte admitting that this had not been the case. Lochte claimed that a gun had been pointed at his head. ![]() Swimmer Ryan Lochte made global headlines during the 2016 Olympics when he and his teammates stated that they had been robbed at gunpoint in Rio de Janeiro. ![]()
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