The Rio Farce, Day 13: Ryan, you better lawyer up fast....

• It appears the Rio authorities' story, and it appears the other swimmers are cooperating, is that Ryan Lochte and the other swimmers...  were out for a night of drunken debauchery after the swimming events, breaking and entering, assaulting security guards, and whipping it out and pissed all over a Rio gas station.

If this is the case, Lochte needs to return his medals (and the same goes for the other three, but I don't think there are any medals to return there).  It can still go down in the record, unless you can prove doping...  But the fact is that Lochte cannot be recognized, at least in these Games, as an Olympic champion if this is the way he's going to act!  Not only on the night, but the coverup as well.

Rio is bad enough the way it is.  This is truly the Third World's first Olympic Games.  There's no sense in a fucking entitled ugly American making matters _WORSE_.  It's becoming clearer and clearer that, if you're not from the USA, you're not cheering for the USA -- and the results are showing it.

I begin to wonder if there's even more here:  That it wasn't only a night of debauchery, that it was a night of "Fuck you, Rio -- I'm from America and I...  Duh...  uh...  I'm American!!!"  (Thank you Max Landis.  :) )

If this is what happened, then, to Mr. Ryan Lochte:  You are very fucking fortunate you haven't gotten somebody KILLED...  yet!!!

• Yardbarker, in several stories, shows it's even worse.  The swimmers apparently destroyed at least the bathroom in the gas station -- if we collate all of these accounts, we can conclude they pretty much did in the whole damned place.  Security footage exists...  In fact, it would not surprise me in the least if there was an outside party involved that it WAS police.  This is hearkening back to the hockey team (IIRC) in Nagano, who trashed their entire lodgings after crashing out.  Lochte, at the very least, won a relay gold medal here!
• Interesting story (if you're into such things) about the men's pole vault.  A Japanese pole vaulter failed to clear a height, and it appears as if his dick actually was what dislodged the bar.  He is understandably embarrassed by the attention it has received.
• In perhaps a giant "FUCK YOU!" to the IAAF and in support of IOC President Thomas Bach, Yelena Isinbayeva, a female Russian pole vaulter, disqualified from the Olympic Games as part of the blanket DQ by the IAAF, has just been elected to an athlete's position within the IOC itself! (Inside the Games)
• We finally, almost two weeks into the Games, have the first medalist strippage.  Kyrgyzstan weightlifting, Izzat Artykov, bronze in the lightweight men's competition (-69 kg), for strychnine.  That's a pesticide that can also be used as a stimulant.  The disqualification removes Kyrgyzstan from the medal table, leaving the number of medaling nations about halfway through Day 13 at eighty. (Inside the Games)
• And we may have our second...  This one in canoeing.  Moldova had a bronze medalist in the C1 (solo) 1000m event, Serghei Tarnovschi.  He has also failed his primary test, and, as a result, Moldova has been thrown out of the C2 (duo) event he was supposed to race in.  If the test is confirmed with the B sample, he loses his medal to a Russian and that's another country off the medal chart, making the total 79. (Inside the Games daily blog)
• In an unfortunate story, one of the Great Britain commentators for the Games, Charlie Webster, has had to be put into a medically-induced coma after contracting malaria in Brazil just before the Opening Ceremony.  (Inside the Games daily blog)
• Two Australian swimmers have been banned from the Closing Ceremony after yet another night of debauchery -- and the Australian Olympic Committee has now officially set an 8 to 8 curfew.  (Inside the Games daily blog)
• AIBA has reassigned it's executive director, all but confirming our worst fears that the boxing competition here (as has been in several Olympics) was fixed.  (Inside the Games daily blog on the news, commentary is solely mine)