Ryan Lochte
When the Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte, who has won 12 medals, was competing in the 2016 Rio games, something very suspicious happened. Lochte, along with three team members, said they got robbed at gunpoint one night. However, the Brazilian police investigation revealed that he was actually lying.
Ryan Lochte
Once footage was recovered, it showed the Olympians vandalizing the gas station and fighting. Thus, Ryan Lochte got suspended for 10 months and his teammates for four months.
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Russia Banned From Olympics
Of course, many are talking about Russia for a different scandal, but we’re here to talk about the 2016 Olympics. Remember when basically the entire Russian Olympics team was banned from competing? Yeah, it was pretty big news. After the World Anti-Doping Agency found crazy amounts of performance enhancing drug use after Grigory Rodchenkov, who headed the Russian’s anti-doping laboratory came forward.
Russia Banned From Olympics
In addition, Richard McLaren who investigated the Russian’s doping published his report that found over 1,000 Russians in various sports from 2011 to 2015 who were part of the country’s doping cover-up and benefited.
