Saga surrounding 4 U.S. swimmers continues

By: News Staff

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Detectives in Rio want Ryan Lochte and one of his teammates charged for falsely reporting a crime.

Brazilian officials are now calling for their arrest.

Brazilian police are adamant that no robbery took place even pulling two of the swimmers off a plane earlier this week for questioning.

Those two swimmers are now headed home, but questions remain.

Olympic athletes Jack Conger and Gunnar Bentz were heckled as they left a Rio police station in a walk of shame making their way to their hotel rooms after spending the past 24 hours questioned by authorities.

Stemming from the four men’s claims that they were robbed at gunpoint outside the Olympic Village Sunday, police saying there was no robbery.

Federal Brazilian police sources saying at least one of four Olympic swimmers are seen breaking down a bathroom door at a gas station then getting into a fight with a security guard.

Lochte’s story sparked the controversy after he told his side of the story in an interview with NBC news on Tuesday.

The U.S. Olympic Committee apologized to the host nation for the admitted act of vandalism.

Rio’s Chief of Police saying the athletes should apologize.

Lochte and his fellow swimmers are now saying that crucial parts of the surveillance video are missing that would prove their side of the story.

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