Friday, August 19, 2016

Fwd: Breaking News



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From: "CNN Breaking News" 
Date: 19 August 2016 at 12:45:17 AM GMT+8

Subject: Breaking News

The US Olympic swimmers facing questions about their reports of being robbed in Rio de Janeiro were involved in a fight at a gas station and committed acts of vandalism there, Brazilian newspaper "O Globo" reports.

The athletes threw stones at the business and tore one of its signs before urinating in the street, the gas station's owner told the paper.

CNN has reached out to police and lawyers for the swimmers, but has not received a response.

Swimmers Jack Conger and Gunnar Bentz were pulled off their flight from Brazil to the United States overnight and had their passports seized.

The two men and fellow US swimmers Ryan Lochte and James Feigen said they were robbed at gunpoint early Sunday in a taxi bound for the Olympic Village by individuals posing as armed police officers, the US Olympic Committee said.

An attorney for Lochte brushed off suggestions of conflicting stories, saying the four swimmers' accounts "are 95 percent consistent."





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