To hear Ryan Lochte tell the story, at least the first time, he unflinchingly stared down the barrel of a gun during a holdup while his teammates cowered on the ground. By the time he was done with the retelling, the fake cops, the gun pointed at his head and the scene of the crime was a gas station instead of a taxi.
The Chinese shuttlers suffered a triple-strike as the defending champion Li Xuerui, women's doubles duo Tang Yuanting/Yu Yang and men's doubles Chai Biao/Hong Wei were defeated by their opponents on Wednesday at 2016 Rio Olympic Games.
China unfortunately lost the chance to enter the women's 4x100m final at Rio Olympics with a narrow gap behind the Canadians after the US successfully appealed its second chance to race alone.
The Chinese Swimming Association will launch a thorough investigation into the positive doping result turned in by swimmer Chen Xinyi, who was expeled from the Rio Olympics on Thursday.
Chinese teenagers Ren Qian and Si Yajie claimed the gold and silver medals respectively in the women's individual 10 metre platform event.
Brazilian police pulled two US Olympic swimmers off a US-bound plane in connection with their claim that they were victims of an armed mugging, officials said on Wednesday.
Four US Olympic swimmers have been accused of vandalizing a gasoline station as further doubts emerged about their supposed robbery in Rio de Janeiro.
Brazilian police stopped two US Olympic swimmers from boarding a flight home on Wednesday to question them about how they and two team mates were robbed at gunpoint in Rio de Janeiro.
Brianna Rollins secured the women's 100m hurdles gold medal at the Rio Olympics as the United States claimed each of the top three places in Wednesday's final.
Zhao Shuai wins China's first gold medal in men's taekwondo
Brazilian police arrested Europe's top Olympic official in a dawn raid of his Rio beachfront hotel on Wednesday.
Women's freestyle 48 kg wrestling Rio 2016
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