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Four U.S. swimmers were not robbed, Brazilian officials said, but instead made up the incident after damaging a gas station door 

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They should forfeit their medals, at a minimum donate their cash awards to charity!
They are pathetic & show how entitled they think they are. They have besmirched our reputation...

Four U.S. swimmers were not robbed, Brazilian officials said, but instead made up the incident after damaging a gas station door
Thursday, August 18, 2016 11:45 AM EDT

The American swimmers who claimed that they were assaulted at gunpoint over the weekend by assailants posing as police officers fabricated their account of the episode, according to Brazilian investigators.

Using video footage and testimony from witnesses, Brazilian police have determined that the incident involved damage to a bathroom door at a gas station where the swimmers stopped in the early hours of Sunday on the way back from a party to the Athletes’ Village.

“Unfortunately, the swimmers told one lie after another,” said a Brazilian police official who had reviewed the video images.
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