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Ryan Lochte, Olympic gold medalist, will seek treatment for an "alcohol addiction" that will last years after police were called for an incident early Thursday at his hotel in California, which did not resulted in no arrest, confirmed PEOPLE.
"It was a minor thing," said Lochte's agent Jeff Ostrow. "But what matters most is that Ryan gets the help he needs."
The news was first reported by TMZ.
"Ryan has been fighting addiction to alcohol for many years," Ostrow told the site, "and unfortunately, this has become a destructive scheme for him."
According to TMZ, the Newport Beach police was called Thursday in a hotel after Lochte, 34, attempted to knock on his bedroom door while he was intoxicated.
A spokesman for the Newport Beach Police Department confirmed to PEOPLE that police responded to a call for disturbances at a hotel on Thursday around 3 am, but no one had been arrested, the man said. involved was not identified further.
The appeal concerned a man who "had a problem with his room" and who was "possibly intoxicated," said the police spokesman.
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Ryan Lochte after winning a gold medal at the 2016 Olympic Games
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Lochte – who has won a dozen Olympic swimming medals, including six gold – has promised to continue competing at the top of his sport, despite a one-year ban imposed in July because he had received an intravenous infusion "greater than 100 ml".
"It's not ideal, but Ryan is in an incredible situation and he will be able to compete again in a year," Ostrow told PEOPLE this summer. "He will have to miss some important things along the way, but I know Ryan better than anyone and I know how he is doing and it will fuel the fire and more than we could ever have created independently."
Outside the pool, Lochte has seen several milestones in recent years.
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He is married Playboy Model Kayla Rae Reid at a sumptuous ceremony in California last month after a civil ceremony earlier this year. They are the parents of Caiden Zane, 16 months old, born last June.
"No matter what happened, Kayla picked me up," Lochte told PEOPLE in September. "She just got there 100% and I owe her everything."
Ostrow told TMZ on Friday that Lochte's priority was his health: "Ryan knows that it is essential to defeat this disease to avoid making bad decisions, to be the best father and the best father possible and he wants to achieve his goal of regaining his dominant position in the pool at his fifth Olympic Games in Tokyo in 2020. "
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