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Ryan Lochte has come clean about the confusion surrounding the robbery he and three other American swimmers endured at the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Lochte told USA Today that they didn’t tell the U.S. Olympic Committee about the incident that happened early Sunday “because we were afraid we’d get in trouble.” When reports […]

RIO DE JANEIRO — A Brazilian judge ordered local police to seize the passports of U.S. swimmers Ryan Lochte and Jimmy Feigen on Wednesday to bar them from leaving the country after the athletes said they were part of a group robbed at gunpoint earlier this week. In a statement, Judge Keyla Blanc de Cnop

RIO DE JANEIRO — On the way to the Rio Olympic Arena for the final day of gymnastics competition Tuesday, Lauren Hernandez tried to encourage U.S. teammate Aly Raisman, who was competing in the floor exercise later in the day, and in the process summed up the sport in the era of Simone Biles. “Aly

RIO DE JANEIRO—For all of the troubles during the first week and a half of the Summer Olympics, the stadium-shaking potential of the enterprise pounded through the beach volleyball venue on the Copacabana shore in the early hours of Wednesday. Members of the sellout crowd chanted “monster block” and waved their arms in unison while

In the final women’s gymnastics event of the Rio Olympics, the floor exercise, Aly Raisman fell just short of gold, although one can hardly blame her. Raisman’s floor routine features the most complex opening tumble in the world, with four separate kinds of flips in a row. It helped her win gold in London in

As rivalries go, the United States and New Zealand are not known for being particularly antagonistic. But it was still heartwarming to see them come together on the Olympic track in Rio Tuesday. The scene: the first round of the women’s 5,000 metres. The pack of runners is clogged. New Zealand’s Nikki Hamblin tries to

RIO DE JANEIRO — The day before the women’s gymnastics team final, a Twitter user suggested Simone Biles and her coach Aimee Boorman were their sport’s equivalent to Walter Payton and Mike Ditka. “Sounds about right,” Payton’s son, Jarrett, chimed in on Twitter. Never mind that the Chicago-born Boorman doesn’t smoke cigars, has never thrown

For the New York Daily News, the mugging of US Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte at gunpoint in Rio de Janeiro was important enough news to warrant a front-page banner headline: “ROBBED AT THE OLYMPICS.” Today’s front page: ROBBED AT THE OLYMPICS – Ryan Lochte, teammates held up at gunpoint https://t.co/ZVicRp2Zfh pic.twitter.com/KgGduhJsb7 — New York Daily