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Los Angeles – This is his worst perf '! No sooner has he emerged from the troubled waters of Rio, Ryan Lochte plunges again: this time the king of the pool, six-time Olympic swimming champion, was suspended 14 months by the US anti-doping agency, announced Monday. USADA.
It all started on May 24 for the 33-year-old swimmer, 37 times world champion (16 times in the big pool). He publishes a photo of him, on social networks, full infusion of a product completely legal. The cliche draws the attention of USADA, not so much for the content – though – but mostly for a settlement story. The agency decides to dig.
" The USADA investigation, to which Lochte fully cooperated, revealed that Lochte received an intravenous infusion of authorized substances ," the agency said in its statement, adding that the method violated the rules in effect, that the man with the twelve Olympic medals used a higher dose (more than 100 mL in 12 hours) to that allowed.
This is Ryan Lochte suspended until July 2019, by virtue of the decision retroactive to the date of the photo. This means that the champion, already absent from the Worlds last year, will not be able to participate in the American championship this week in California, nor, especially, at the world championships next year.
" I did not take anything illegal, everything was legal.You can buy that at CVS or Walgreens (two supermarket chains and American pharmacies, ed) but there are rules and you have to conform to it "politely agreed Ryan Lochte during a press conference on Monday, during which he said he accepted this decision.
– " Horrible American " –
The native of Canandaiga, in the State of New York, would have done well anyway this new and long sanction, his second in less than two years after his ten-month suspension (by the US Olympic Committee) for the case of the false aggression at the Rio de Janeiro Games in 2016, which earned him the nickname " horrible American ".
On August 14, 2016, Ryan Lochte and his compatriots Gunnar Bentz, Jack Conger and James Feigen, all gold medalists in Rio, claimed to have been robbed by men dressed as police officers as they returned to the Olympic Village after a drunken evening.
The story was invented from scratch: CCTV footage shows swimmers urinating on the walls of a gas station and tearing off a poster, before quarreling with a security guard. their taxi driver who had called the police.
The diplomatic incident brushed but avoided, Lochte had acknowledged his wrongs and had apologized but the case, besides his soap opera, had caused immense damage, especially in terms of image. Dropped by his sponsors, hated by public opinion, the mediator said he had thought of suicide.
Since then, Ryan Lochte has become a dad and has set new sports goals. But with this new blow, time is running out.
Despite a gargantuan record, Lochte has always suffered from the eternal comparison with ogre Michael Phelps and his 23 Olympic titles.
The Games, precisely, he still wants to participate, with Tokyo-2020 in the line of fire. During the competition, he will celebrate his 36 years. Like an air of last chance.
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