adminNEW YORK. — Star American swimmer Ryan Lochte said on Saturday he took “full responsibility” for vandalising a petrol station bathroom and then telling police an “over-exaggerated” story about it during the Rio Olympics.
The episode, which has embarrassed the US sporting superpower, saw Lochte and three other gold-winning US swimmers embroiled in a controversy after he gave a shocking — and false — account of how they had been robbed at gunpoint.
“That’s why I’m taking full responsibility for it, is because I overexaggerated that story and if I had never done that, we wouldn’t be in this mess,” said Lochte in an interview broadcast in part late Saturday, the peroxide colour washed out of his hair. — AFP.
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