19 August,2016 10:25 AM IST | | AFP
Two top US Olympic swimmers faced new questioning by Brazilian police yesterday after being removed from a US-bound plane over allegations that they may have fabricated a report of an armed mugging
Ryan Lochte
Rio de Janeiro: Two top US Olympic swimmers faced new questioning by Brazilian police yesterday after being removed from a US-bound plane over allegations that they may have fabricated a report of an armed mugging.
Ryan Lochte
Jack Conger and Gunnar Bentz were detained minutes before taking off from Rio de Janeiro for the United States. The gold medal winners underwent a first round of questioning at the airport police station, Rio police said in a statement yesterday.
"The passports of the two athletes were taken and they will be questioned again on the case," police said.
The two were with star US swimmer Ryan Lochte and another squad member, James Feigen, when they said they were robbed at gunpoint early Sunday.
Meanwhile, reports emerged that the US Olympic swimmers claiming to have been mugged in fact got into a fight with an armed gas station security guard.
