US Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte robbed in taxi hold-up after leaving party, friend says
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US gold medal swimmer Ryan Lochte was robbed in a taxi hold-up in Rio de Janeiro after leaving a party where he had been celebrating the end of the Olympic swimming programme, he told fellow competitor Thiago Pereira.
A spokesman for Brazilian Pereira told Reuters on Sunday Pereira had called Lochte after hearing reports the US swimmer had been the victim of a gun-point robbery the night before.
"Thiago and his wife went yesterday night to a birthday party for a common friend with Lochte in the France House," the spokesman saids.
