From September 2016 to June 2017, Ryan Lochte was sanctioned for a fool. During the Rio 2016 Olympic Games it was invented that he had suffered a violent robbery with three teammates ("They put a gun to my temple," he said), the Brazilian authorities discovered that his story was false and the six-time Olympic champion ended up confessing that he had drunk too much and that he knew what really happened that night.
That had its consequences: his four sponsors, including Speedo and Ralph Lauren, abandoned him and he missed the 2017 Budapest World Cup. But he didn't learn. He joined the reality show 'Dancing with the stars' to recover money and continued with his own.
Therefore, from May 2018 to July 24, Ryan Lochte was again sanctioned for a fool. On his Instagram account he posted a photo with his wife, former Playboy model Kayla Rae Reid , having a blood transfusion without knowing that this practice - above 100 milliliters - is prohibited by the World Anti-Doping Agency and, when They informed him of the error, he gave an obvious confession: "I didn't know."
Again the punishment prevented him from attending a World Cup, this time the recently finished Gwangju, but again he went through a reality show, this time 'Celebrity Big Brother', and continued with his own.
Now the next one is expected.
Because despite his 35 years and his recent fatherhood, Lochte wants to continue swimming, wants to remain in the elite, wants to reach the Tokyo 2020 Games and most likely will succeed. His clumsiness outside the pool is only comparable to his talent inside. This Sunday, on his return after the break, he won the 200 meter styles at the United States Championship held in Palo Alto. It is true that there were not the best in the event, those who played in the Gwangju World Cup, and it is true that he stayed almost four seconds away from his own world distance record, but gold shows that he can reach his fifth Games.
"I've come back for fun, in fact, I didn't have much fun swimming since the London Games in 2012. There are many things I can't do as I did when I was 20 years old, my body can't stand as before, there are days I need to rest, but it's a challenge. I feel happy to be here, "said Lochte, who has tried to straighten his life in recent times.
In the first months of the sanction he went through a clinic to solve his alcohol problems and, as he confessed, has left the nightlife to focus on the care of his children Caiden Zane and Liv Rae . "I needed help, my wife was pregnant, so I entered on my own, I did everything they told me to do and I became a better man," confessed one of the best swimmers in history. "
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