The U.S. Olympic Committee apologized late Thursday for what it called a “distracting ordeal” involving four of its swimmers in an alleged robbery that Brazilian police have said they made up. Conger and Bentz were allowed to leave Brazil after testifying about the alleged robbery. They initially tried to leave the country Wednesday night but were pulled off a plane by law enforcement. The saga began when Lochte said that he and Conger, Bentz and Feigen were held at gunpoint and robbed several hours after the last Olympic swimming races ended. The video shows one of the swimmers pulling a sign off of a wall and dropping it onto the ground.

Source: Fox News August 19, 2016 09:16 UTC