In the five years since Ryan Lochte, perhaps the second-most accomplished swimmer ever, became most famous for something other than swimming — since the scandal that sent him to the front page of newspapers worldwide, and to the cover of the Encyclopedia of White American Male Entitlement — Lochte has, in his own words, been to “the very bottom.”
There was the suspension for his conduct in Rio. Then another one for doping. There was rehab for alcohol abuse after Lochte found himself "headed to a dark, dark place.