Ryan Lochte's story about an armed robbery in Rio de Janeiro is a fabrication designed to distract from an encounter with security at a gas station, Brazilian police said Thursday.
The New York Times reports that police say the swimmers — Lochte and fellow American swimmers Gunnar Bentz, Jack Conger, and James Feigen — stopped at a gas station on a taxi ride home from a party at an Olympic hospitality house, where they did damage to a bathroom door and had a discussion with the manager and a security guard — before, witnesses say, paying the manager.