American Swimmers Held Over Robbery Scandal

In the latest headline news from Rio de Janeiro say that two Olympic swimmers from the United States were stopped from leaving the country on Wednesday night as there were some ambiguity in information relating to their robbery ordeal that took place last week.

The United States Olympic Committee stated that the swimmers, Gunnar Bentz and Jack Conger were refused from boarding their flights to America by the Brazilian authorities.

On the early morning of Wednesday, a Brazilian judge issued a ruling saying that both the passport of swimmers Ryan Lochte and James Feigen should be hold after there were discrepancies in the statements regarding the incident that took place in the in morning hours of Sunday. This is after the athletes left a club.

In an official statement disseminated from the court’s site, Blanc De Cnop, who is the high court judge in Brazil, said that in the statement issued by Lochte to the Brazilian police, the athletes were attacked by one person who robbed then about 400 dollars in cash.

On the other hand, Feigen claimed that they were attacked by more than one robber, and added that only one of the robber was armed.

A security footage that was released by the Daily Mail clearly depicted the men arriving at the village of the athletes looking unfazed by the occurrence. Many Brazilians have not taken the issue lightly, as they claim that the whole ordeal has been nothing but false accusation of robbery. For more information. https://unchy.com

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