The truth is that nobody knows the truth about what happened in the curious case of Ryan Lochte. It's possible Lochte himself doesn't know. What happens in Rio is supposed to stay in Rio.
But did Lochte and the group of Olympic swimmers he was partying with really get mugged when they left a club in the middle of the night, as he said, by armed guys dressed up like cops? Or, did he make the whole thing up? And why would he do that? We can come to no definitive conclusion, but we do know a few things.