Police discredit Ryan Lochte’s robbery story, say swimmers owe Rio an apology washingtonpost.com/sports/olympics/brazil-stops-two-us-olympic-swimmers-from-leaving-country-over-robbery- case/2016/08/18/5bfdee66-6540-11e6-96c0-37533479f3f5_story.html RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazilian police Thursday accused swimming star Ryan Lochte of fabricating his story of being held up along with three of his U.S. Olympic teammates by armed assailants. But the authorities also acknowledged a gun was pulled on the foursome by a security guard early Sunday at a Rio de Janeiro gas station, where the swimmers apparently damaged property at the end of a late-night excursion. The police statement contradicting Lochte’s account was later corroborated by a lawyer who represented two of Lochte’s fellow U.S. swimmers. The episode threatened to overshadow the Rio Games and what has been a stellar performance by U.S. athletes, led by the American swimming team that ended its competition here last week. “No robbery was committed against these athletes,” Fernando Veloso, chief of the Rio de Janeiro police investigative division, said during a packed news conference Thursday afternoon. “They were not victims of the crimes they claimed.” Early Friday, Breno Melaragno, the lawyer for swimmer Jimmy Feigen, said that under an agreement reached with a Brazilian judge, Feigen will donate roughly $10,800 to an unnamed institution and then depart the country, the Associated Press reported. Late Thursday, the U.S. Olympic Committee issued a statement that acknowledged a version of events that involved an argument spurred by “an act of vandalism” committed by “one of the athletes.” The statement concluded, “We apologize to our hosts in Rio and the people of Brazil for this distracting ordeal in the midst of what should rightly be a celebration of excellence.” 1/1.