Above is a picture from the Daily Mail of the swimmers who supposedly were robbed coming back to the Olympic village, apparently with some of the items they said were stolen. Ryan Lochte is already back in the United States.
Via ABC:
RIO DE JANEIRO — The U.S. Olympic Committee says American swimmers Jack Conger and Gunnar Bentz were removed from their flight back to the U.S. by Brazilian authorities.
A Brazilian judge ordered Wednesday that the passports of American swimmers Ryan Lochte and Jimmy Feigen be seized, confining them to the country as authorities investigate their claim they were robbed at gunpoint during the Rio de Janeiro Olympics.
It was not immediately clear whether the swimmers were still in Brazil.
The office of Judge Keyla Blank confirmed the order Wednesday in a statement.
The U.S. Olympic Committee said police went to the athletes village Wednesday morning to try to collect the passports, but the swim team had already moved out. Spokesman Patrick Sandusky declined to say whether Lochte and Feigen were still in the country.
“As part of our standard security protocol, we do not make athlete travel plans public and therefore cannot confirm the athletes’ current location,” Sandusky said. “We will continue to cooperate with Brazilian authorities.”
A USA Swimming spokesman and Lochte’s attorney, Jeff Ostrow, did not immediately return messages seeking comment.
Lochte and three of his teammates say they were robbed at gunpoint in a taxi Sunday morning as they returned to the athletes village from a party, several hours after the last Olympic swimming events were held.