Ryan Lochte, left, sits for an interview with NBC’s Matt Lauer. “I over-exaggerated that story,” Lochte told Lauer on Saturday. He later said he “definitely had too much to drink.”“It was still hours after the incident happened,” Lochte said. It was my fault, and I shouldn’t have said that.”In one exchange, Lauer told Lochte that, while his initial version portrayed the four swimmers as victims, Brazilian police said the gas station security guards said they were merely seeking restitution for vandalism committed by the swimmers. In the interview that aired Saturday night, Lauer pointed to those two interviews and how Lochte had not told “the whole truth.”“I left details out, which, that’s why I’m in this mess,” Lochte said in response.

Source: Washington Post August 21, 2016 00:59 UTC