After a Victory, Lochte Steps Out in Style OMAHA - After winning the 400-meter individual medley at the Olympic trials Monday night, Ryan Lochte broke out a pair of Adidas high-top "star-spangled" sneakers that he helped design. The right shoe is blue with white stars. The left one is white with red horizontal stripe. Both have wings, as if he is an All-American Hermes. Lochte, 27, is an avowed collector of shoes; he owns 130 pairs. He likes to look as good out of the water as in it, although he was not pleased with his winning time of 4:07.06. His best time is a 4:05.25, which he recorded at the trials here four years ago. "That time was not good at all," Lochte said. I know I'm capable of going way faster. There's definitely a lot of places during that race I knew I could go faster. I just didn't.