Ryan Lochte Apologizes — Transcript
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- 0:00Olympic swimmer Ryan locky now saying
- 0:02he's sorry after reporting he and three
- 0:04teammates were robbed at gunpoint at
- 0:07this gas station in Rio posting on
- 0:09social media I want to apologize for my
- 0:11behavior last weekend for not being more
- 0:14careful and candid in how I describe the
- 0:16events of that early morning locky
- 0:18initially telling NBC after a night of
- 0:21partying the athletes were targeted by
- 0:23armed men posing as police the guy
- 0:26pulled out his gun he cocked it put it
- 0:29to my forehead
- 0:30but police in Rio claim this
- 0:32surveillance video tells a much
- 0:34different story you see one of the
- 0:35swimmers Pull A Sign Off the Wall locky
- 0:38comes out of the bathroom where the gas
- 0:40station owner says the men broke down a
- 0:42door the guys are seen getting into
- 0:44their cab when they're confronted by
- 0:46this man police say he's a gas station
- 0:48security officer who detained the
- 0:50athletes until they handed over $50 but
- 0:53the video cuts out for 3 minutes the
- 0:55athletes insisting it was in that time
- 0:58that they were held up at gunpoint
- 1:00forced to hand over about
- 1:02$400 two of the swimmers Gunner Benz and
- 1:04Jack Conger Landing in Miami Friday
- 1:06morning Jimmy fan still in Rio agreeing
- 1:09to pay $1,000 to a charity to get his
- 1:13passport back Fegan is the one who
- 1:15really needs to be concerned because
- 1:16he's
- 1:18there and still no full explanation for
- 1:21the conflicting accounts but in his
- 1:22apology locky went on to say that it was
- 1:25traumatic to be in a foreign country
- 1:27with a stranger pointing a gun demanding
- 1:29money locky adding that regardless he
- 1:32should have been more responsible Marcy
- 1:35Gonzalez ABC News New
- 1:45York
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