Finally, Ryan Lochte is paying for the gas station incident in Rio—and his made-up story about getting robbed at gunpoint. Less than three weeks after fellow U.S. swimmer Gunnar Bentz released a statement that directly contradicted with Lochte's account, the International Olympic Committee, the United States Olympic Committee, and USA Swimming handed Lochte a 10-month suspension.
An anonymous source told USA Today Sports on Wednesday that the decision has not been announced publicly, but that Lochte's suspension is longer than that of the other three swimmers who accompanied him at the gas station that night. Allegedly, Lochte will also be banned from the world championships meet next year in Budapest.
The suspension is notably harsher than Michael Phelps' six months after his DUIs. According to TMZ, some of the decision-makers on the USOC felt the punishment was too severe. That said, he *did* drunkenly pee on and vandalize a gas station, lie completely about it, forget most of the details of his own story, tell a totally different story, then flee the country...so, jeah.
