Ryan Lochte issues apology for Rio robbery story — Transcript

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1. 0:00today Olympic swimmer Ryan locky
2. 0:03apologized for what he did in Rio that
3. 0:05earned him embarrassing headlines in the
4. 0:08New York tabloids the post dubbed him
5. 0:10the Ugly American The Daily News the
6. 0:13locky mess monster Ben Tracy is in Rio
7. 0:18today locky said in a statement I want
8. 0:20to apologize for my behavior last
9. 0:23weekend for not being more careful and
10. 0:25candid in how I described the events
11. 0:28Brazilian authorities say ly can Ed the
12. 0:30story to cover up what actually happened
13. 0:33at this gas station the security camera
14. 0:35footage shows the athletes coming down
15. 0:37this Corridor one of them tears a poster
16. 0:39off this wall and at some point they
17. 0:41make their way back here to the
18. 0:43bathrooms where the police say they
19. 0:45vandalized one of the Stalls swimmer
20. 0:47Jimmy Fegan had to donate $10,000 to a
21. 0:50Brazilian charity in order to leave Rio
22. 0:53but the incident may end up costing
23. 0:55locky Millions as stupid as the
24. 0:57operative word USA Today sports
25. 0:59columnist Nancy armor says locky will
26. 1:01likely lose sponsors there is a very
27. 1:04short shelf life for Olympic athletes he
28. 1:07just fell off that shelf do I want to
29. 1:09give my money to Michael Phelps do I
30. 1:10want to give it to Katie Lei do I want
31. 1:12to give it to Ryan locky that is really
32. 1:14no longer a choice three of locki
33. 1:16sponsors are reviewing the situation and
34. 1:19locky has hired a PR firm to deal with
35. 1:21the Fallout of what could have been
36. 1:23simply about breaking a bathroom door
37. 1:25instead it's become this international
38. 1:27incident and it's embarrassing for the
39. 1:30usoc it's embarrassing for Ryan locky
40. 1:32it's embarrassing for his three
41. 1:34teammates it became a mess when it
42. 1:36didn't need to be this way the United
43. 1:39States Olympic Committee has now
44. 1:40apologized to the people of Brazil and
45. 1:42says what these swimmers did was
46. 1:44unacceptable with just two days left in
47. 1:46the Rio game Scott they want to focus on
48. 1:48gold medals and not gas station
49. 1:51bathrooms Ben Tracy for us Ben thanks
50. 1:54very much