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Swimmers say there's no excuse for Ryan Lochte not knowing the rules

The United States Anti-Doping Agency announced Monday that 12-time Olympic medalist Ryan Lochte has been suspended until July 2019. Time

IRVINE, Calif. — Only Ryan Lochte knows what Ryan Lochte thinks — and why he acts the way he does. But if the resident bad boy of American swimming expected some of the sport’s leading stars to defend him Tuesday, he was in for a rude awakening.

A day after it was announced that the 12-time Olympic medalist is banned for 14 months after carelessly using a prohibited intravenous drip, several top swimmers, many of them personal friends of Lochte’s, expressed no sympathy for his situation.