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RIO DE JANEIRO — Leave it to Ryan Lochte to be at the center of scandal that started in a gas station bathroom and exploded into an international incident. Lochte and three U.S. Olympic swimming teammates turned the Rio Games into another showcase for the Ugly American. The U.S. tops the medal count for offending […]

RIO DE JANEIRO — An ode to beautiful basketball it was not. With a trip to the gold medal game on the line and its most familiar international opponent in the way, the U.S. men’s basketball team shot as poorly as it had all tournament. Carmelo Anthony, the leading Olympic scorer in U.S. history, hit

RIO DE JANEIRO — The Olympic scandal created by American swimmer Ryan Lochte and three teammates moved toward a resolution Friday, with Lochte issuing a qualified apology for lying about an alleged robbery and swimmer James Feigen reaching a deal that would allow him to leave Brazil. “I want to apologize for my behavior last

Somewhere, we imagine, security footage exists of Ryan Lochte and companions walking out of Sergio Mendes’s estate, dragging a tiger by its leash, or mooning Christ the Redeemer. The Curious Incident of the Lochte in the Night-Time, which as this is being written is now playing in a movie theater in Rio de Janeiro, where

RIO DE JANIERO — Ryan Lochte fabricated a story about a gunpoint robbery earlier this week and was actually involved in a scuffle at a gas station, Brazilian police officials told the Associated Press on Thursday. Meanwhile, Brazilian police told ABC News that there is a tape showing Lochte or one of the three U.S.

RIO DE JANEIRO — They didn’t want to be here. They didn’t want to play this match. Why did they have to play this match? When Kerri Walsh Jennings and April Ross stepped on to the sand at Rio’s beach volleyball arena on Copacabana Beach a couple of hours before midnight Wednesday, they wanted to

RIO DE JANEIRO — Moments after she had left the track after leading the first-ever 1-2-3 sweep by athletes from one country in the 100-meter hurdles, Brianna Rollins clutched a precious golden object in her right hand. Her prize? Not a medal — an apple. “I’m so hungry,” she said, the only downside of waiting

RIO DE JANEIRO — Simone Biles didn’t quite feel like she truly belonged to the Famous U.S. Olympian Club. She admitted to feeling a “little nervous” around the likes of swimmers Michael Phelps and Katie Ledecky during a recent photo shoot. She was underestimating herself. Another gold-medal performance by the transcendent talent suggested the club

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