Ryan Lochte explained why Team USA swimmers can't leave the Olympic Village in a TikTok Q&A clip shared by his wife Kayla Lochte, insisting you have to get an official 'okay' first
Becca Longmire is a digital news writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2024. Her work has previously appeared on ET Canada, Metro and the Mail Online."What do you mean you are not allowed to leave the Olympic Village? I see all kinds of Olympic athletes leaving the Village," the TikTok user asked.
"Not USA swimmers," Lochte, 40, replied off camera, as Kayla commented, "USA has stricter rules than other countries, right?""Nope," the former Olympian insisted, adding that if you have days off swimming and want to go eat lunch "with your family" for example, you have to get the "okay through the head coach."in four Olympic Games, his first being in Athens in 2004.
"With this, in agreement with the members of the Technical Committee of the sport, with the Head of the Team and with the Brazilian Confederation of Aquatic Sports , the COB decided to punish the two athletes for having left the Olympic Village without authorization during the night of last Friday," the release added.to get the biggest stories from the Games delivered straight to your inbox. Watch the Paris Olympics and Paralympics, beginning July 26, on NBC and Peacock.
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