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RIO DE JANEIRO — Ryan Lochte told USA TODAY Sports on Tuesday that he initially did not tell the U.S. Olympic Committee that he and three other American swimmers were victims of a robbery early Sunday morning "because we were afraid we'd get in trouble."
Lochte's initial response appears to clear up early confusion by Olympic officials about whether Lochte and his teammates were robbed. A spokesman for the International Olympic Committee at first said Sunday that the reports of a robbery were not true and attributed the information to the U.