 Ryan Lochte I'm Sorry 
 
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 Ryan Lochte is finally doing a mea culpa for the lie he told on NBC that's become an international incident ... but he kind of doubled down on the version of events he told cops. (Photo: Kevin Jairaj, USA TODAY Sports) 
 
 RIO DE JANEIRO — Jimmy Feigen was on his way back to the United States on Friday night after having his passport returned while another one of the U.S. swimmers who returned home has apologized and given a detailed account of the incident at the gas station. That's when two men approached with guns and badges and told them to get out and get down, Lochte said. During a news conference Thursday, Fernando Veloso, chief of Rio’s civil police, said the men were drunk and smashed up a gas station bathroom before being confronted by security guards. Video shot Thursday by USA TODAY showed the bathroom mirror and a soap dispenser were undamaged. It is not representative of what is expected as Olympians, as Americans, as swimmers and as individuals," Wielgus said in a statement Thursday night. Bentz said he then suggested they leave, and they returned to the taxi.Two men whom Bentz said he believed to be security guards told them to exit the taxi. U.S. Olympic medalist Ryan Lochte issued an apology today "for not being more careful and candid" when explaining what happened during an alleged gunpoint robbery in Rio de Janeiro last weekend. Add Interest 
 
 "I want to apologize for my behavior last weekend -- for not being more careful and candid in how I described the events of that early morning and for my role in taking the focus away from the many athletes fulfilling their dreams of participating in the Olympics," Lochte said in a statement posted on social media. "It's traumatic to be out late with your friends in a foreign country -- with a language barrier -- and have a stranger point a gun at you and demand money to let you leave, but regardless of the behavior of anyone else that night, I should have been much more responsible in how I handled myself and for that am sorry to my teammates, my fans, my fellow competitors, my sponsors, and the hosts of this great event," he said in the statement. He goes on to say he's proud to rep the USA in Olympic competition and this was a situation that could and should have been avoided. "There has already been too much said and too many valuable resources dedicated to what happened last weekend, so I hope we spend our time celebrating the great stories and performance of these Games and look ahead to celebrating future successes," he wrote. A photo posted by Ryanlochte (@ryanlochte) on Aug 19, 2016 at 7:11am PDT 
 
 Lochte claimed on Sunday that he and three teammates — Gunnar Bentz, Jack Conger and James Feigen — were robbed in a taxi early that morning while heading to the Olympic Village in the Brazilian seaside city.
– Is Ryan Lochte trying to wrest back control of Lochte-Gate? USA Today points out the US swimmer posted a lengthy mea culpa—though TMZ labels it nothing more than a doubling down—on social media Friday morning. In it, he says he's sorry to "my teammates, my fans, my fellow competitors, my sponsors, and the hosts of this great event" for his behavior in Rio over the weekend, though he doesn't document specifically what that behavior was. He apologizes "for not being more careful and candid" about what transpired and the part he played in "taking the focus away from the many athletes fulfilling their dreams" at the Olympics. With no mention of the drunken gas-station vandalism that's being alleged, Lochte simply wrote, "It's traumatic to be out late with your friends in a foreign country—with a language barrier—and have a stranger point a gun at you and demand money to let you leave," adding that even in those circumstances, he should've a) "been much more responsible in how I handled myself," and b) avoided the situation entirely. As for why it took him so long to address the issue more fully, he notes he had to make sure teammates Gunnar Bentz, Jack Conger, and James Feigen were set to arrive back in the US safe and sound (though Feigen still remains in Brazil, per ABC News) and that all legal matters had been taken care of.