Intoxicated Ryan Lochte exaggerated ‘robbery’ story

Disgraced American swimmer Ryan Lochte has said he exaggerated what happened at a Rio petrol station and admitted he was drunk during the incident that caused a scandal at the Olympics.

The 32-year-old acknowledged it was his “immature behaviour” that got him and three team-mates into a controversy that cast a shadow over final days of the Games.

Lochte, in a portion of an interview with NBC’s Matt Lauer that aired on US television, continued backtracking from a story that he initially described as an armed robbery.