The Reporter (Lansdale, PA)

Phelps warned Lochte before scrape

-

Add Michael Phelps’ name to the list of Americans who were less than amused by teammate Ryan Lochte’s post-competitio­n, early morning drunken antics at the Rio Olympics.

“I did have a talk with him about two days before about not doing anything bad,” said Phelps, who retired after the Summer Games as the most-decorated Olympian of all time. “I told him, ‘Just keep your head on straight. Have fun.”’

Apparently, the warning didn’t take.

Lochte and three teammates got into a scrape with a security at a gas station in Rio de Janeiro after a night of partying. He originally claimed he and young teammates Gunnar Bentz, Jack Conger and Jimmy Feigen were threatened and robbed at gunpoint but was later charged in Brazil with filing a false police report.

Newspapers in English

Newspapers from United States