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US swimmers were not robbed, says Rio police chief
- Updated: August 19, 2016
19 August 2016 From the section Latin America & Caribbean Share
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-37115778 Read more about sharing. Close share panel × Media captionFootage has been released purportedly showing four US swimmers at a petrol station in Rio
Four US Olympic gold medal swimmers who said they had been robbed in Rio de Janeiro were not victims of crime, the head of the city’s civil police says.
Fernando Veloso told reporters that one or more of the men had instead vandalised part of a petrol station and then offered to pay for the damage.
The Americans paid and left after armed security guards intervened, he said.
One guard had justifiably drawn his gun after one of the swimmers began behaving erratically, Mr Veloso added.
Three of the swimmers remain in Brazil. The fourth, Ryan Lochte, returned to the US on …
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