INDIANAPOLIS — Ever since they returned from the Rio Olympics — which wasn’t easy, if you recall passports being held and two of the swimmers being pulled off flights — Jack Conger, Gunnar Bentz and Jimmy Feigen knew their names would be forever linked, along with Ryan Lochte’s, to the infamous gas station incident that overshadowed the second week of the Games.
And as Conger explained this week here at the 2017 U.S. national championships, the three swimmers also realized it would take quite an effort to put the whole embarrassing ordeal behind them. Their punishment, handed down in September by USA Swimming and the U.