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If it is indeed a fabrication (gotta say that), I sure hope there's a mechanism for stripping them of their medals. All these athletes are there achieving great things and they are all being overshadowed by this alleged (gotta say that) hoax.
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@1,

I wouldn't take their medals away. They did legitimately earn them. This alleged altercation has nothing to do with their olympic achievements. Stripping them of their medals would be like taking away a wounded soldier's purple heart because they got a DWI the next day.
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Things look pretty good for Lochte from here. He is already back in the US, won Olympic medals, and is in a much better place financially and socially than 95% of the planet. No one is even going to remember this in a month after the games end and people stop caring about swimming for another four years (when Lochte will likely be too old to compete anyway).

The guys still in Rio though, that is the problem. They will not be charged with a crime, as the US and Brazil will work it out diplomatically, but who knows the extortion and abuse they may suffer in the meantime at the hands of the corrupt cesspool that is the Rio government and justice system .
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@1: Oh please, they do not deserve to lose their medals for being overly drunk and overly stupid. Unless you want to scour the books for every athlete that did something illegal or dumb over the years.

Give me a break with your overwrought moralizing. I doubt the other athletes, whose achievements are not being overshadowed by this at all by the way, would be staunchly against such an action. They know how much work goes into those medals you want taken away for nebulous reasons at best.
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@2

I think the actions could be considered a violation of the spirit and values of the Olympics, such as they are. There's a gymnast, I think Dutch, who got sent home for violating curfew or getting drunk or something. I think this was probably a decision by the Netherlands, not the IOC, but stripping the medals might not be entirely unprecedented.

I'm not sure the wounded soldier analogy altogether. Do you think it would be comparable to denying a soldier who served honorably a National Cemetery plot because he became a terrorist--the law that they passed to prevent the next Timothy McVeigh from that honor?
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Lochte. Mastermind.

*dies laughing*
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@4
Get over yourself. Overwrought describes every post you've written. Anyway, you miss the point, as usual--and probably deliberately. HInt: "It's not the crime, it's the cover-up."
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@5,

Analogies are always suspect. Mine isn't perfect. But neither is yours. Denying a soldier a plot in Arlington would be denying them something promised to them in the foreseeable future, but which had not been "earned" yet (by dying). A better (though weird) analogy would be digging up a dead soldier buried at Arlington because you found out they committed a terrorist act after serving in the military but before (obviously) being buried.

It's all a case of retroactively removing a bestowed honor on grounds that are only arguably attached to the event that elicited the honor.

Also, sending home an athlete for (arguably) violating the spirit of the games is different than stripping an athlete/athletes of medals.
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They can keep their medals, they earned them. What's really going to hurt is their current lack of marketability. They could probably coach, but Lochte, who appears to be somewhat telegenic, may have blown his shot at a post-Olympic career in media.

* No idea if that was his plan. He could have wanted to work as a circus seal for all I know.
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*sigh*
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This should come as no shock, but Ryan Lochte is a media whore. He likely did this whole deal just to get more exposure for his future in 'Reality TV' he probably has been watching Donald Trump's shenanigans and learning from the master. It's incredible the difference between Ryan Lochte and Michael Phelps. Yes, Phelps has not used the best judgement when he showed up in pics doing a bong, but he's grown up since then. Lochte never grew up.
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@12 - I totally forget about that whole side of the media. The public confession, maybe a BS stint in rehab, the redemption, the reality show. I'm so fucking happy I don't have cable.
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@7: So now you want Olympic medals taken for lying? How about speeding, or littering?

Think about your faulty logic here: you want medals stripped from athletes for "overshadowing" the accomplishments of others (debatable), yet do not care if those very achievements are completely stripped from other athletes?

Think about that for a few hours, maybe it will strike you how dumb and hypocritical that line of reasoning is.

@8: Can you read?

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