There seems little doubt the dominant athlete of the 2016 Olympic Games was Jamaican Usain Bolt, who won gold medals in three sprint races for the third consecutive time and ended his career, maybe, tied with Carl Lewis and Paavo Nurmi for the most Olympic track and field titles.
There seems little doubt the dominant American of the 2016 Olympic Games was swimmer Ryan Lochte, whose knuckleheaded decision to embellish a story about an early morning shakedown at a service station into an armed robbery, and to compound that by telling the same twisted story to police, turned what should have been a quiet final week into a three-day fiasco.