Final Detained U.S. Swimmer Now Leaving Brazil
COOPER: There's more breaking news tonight. Jimmy Feigen, the fourth U.S. swimmer involved in the Rio gas station affair is on his way out of Brazil. Meantime, USA Swimming has weighed in on scandal involving Feigen, Ryan Lochte and two other swimmers saying they don't condone, "lapse in judgment and conduct" that led us to this point. Yesterday, Brazilian police said Lochte's account of being robbed at gun point isn't true, that he and the others actually vandalized the Rio gas station. Lochte has now apologized for his behavior. Nick Paton Walsh has the latest.</s>NICK PATON WALSH, CNN: : Gold medalist, Ryan Lochte took to Instagram today saying he apologizes, "for my behavior last weekend for not being more careful and candid in how I described the events of that early morning and for my role in taking focus away from the many athletes," fulfilling their Olympic dreams. Lochte and three of his teammates stopped to the gas station in Rio early Sunday, surveillance video appear to support police accounts. But at least one of them vandalized the station, urinating outside and damaging property. The man then get into that taxi and were confronted by security officers off camera, money reportedly changed hands. Lochte had publicly described the encounter as an armed robbery.</s>RYAN LOCHTE, U.S. OLYMPIC SWIMMER: They pulled us over. They pulled out their guns. They told the other swimmers to get down on the ground and then the guy pulled out his gun. He cocked it, put it to my forehead and said get down.</s>WALSH: The police say the American swimmers reached an agreement with the armed guards to pay for damages while the gold medalist has now apologized and entirely changing his story. "It's traumatic to be out late with your friends in a foreign country with a language barrier," he posted, "and have a stranger point a gun at you and demand money to let you leave."</s>MARIO ANDRADA, RIO 2016 SPOKESMAN: We obviously, accept his apology.</s>WALSH: The International Olympic Committee chiming in, as well.</s>ANDRADA: It's clear that the Brazilian population was kind of felt humiliated.</s>WALSH: Lochte has been back in the U.S. for days. One of his teammates board (inaudible). And Brazil Rio's Mayor saying he feels "pity and contempt for all of them." James Feigen was not allowed to leave Brazil until he paid nearly $11,000 to a national sports charity. Civil police say Feigen and his lawyer agreed to the donation during a court appearance. Jack Conger and Gunnar Bentz returned to the U.S. just this morning. The two were being pulled off their original flight by Brazilian authorities Wednesday. They were given their passports back only after giving statements to police. All of this as the U.S. Olympic Committee tries to clean up the mess left behind in a statement, it said, "The behavior of these athletes is not acceptable nor does it represent the values of Team USA." But the USOC also stopped short of saying its athletes lied, their security guards, "displayed their weapons, ordered the athletes from their vehicle and demanded a monetary payment," the statement reads.</s>COOPER: And, Nick joins us now from Rio. So how is this apology from Lochte being received there in Rio? Because, obviously, there were a lot of folks who were very offended there.</s>WALSH: Well, we had clear reaction from the USOC's apology about the men's conduct, which was OK, thank you, apology accepted to some degree. The broader issue here is that armed robbery is no joke in this city, Anderson. As you well know, you know, this is a country plagued by petty crime which often leads to murder to some degree. So, the idea that you might try and exaggerate what happened to you to justify some vulgar behavior about (ph) the same gas station is deeply offensive particularly at a time when Brazil is very much on edge to make sure its image is as burnished as possible for these games. At the same time, we have this very messy moment where it really comes down to who felt what as firearms were, "on display" and this negotiation happened about paying money to calm the situation down. At the end of the day, Ryan Lochte has done a big disservice to his reputation here. Frankly, I think, it comes down to had he not given that interview suggesting he was really held at gun point with the pistol to his forehead this whole issue wouldn't have turned into four or five days worth of international diplomatic wrangling, but its occupied most people's attention at the end of the games here, it's highlighted the crime that Rio wished wasn't so much part of its daily radar and it's really taken attention away from the sport damaging the image of Team</s>USA. COOPER: Yeah. Nick Paton Walsh. Nick, thanks very much. Joining us now is CNN sports analyst and "USA Today" columnist, Christine Brennan. I understand, Christine, you're getting some new information from sources about possible disciplinary actions for Lochte.</s>CHRISTINE BRENNAN, CNN SPORTS ANALYST: That's right, Anderson. I've been working the phones and talking to people who are involved with the decision making of this is the U.S. Olympic Committee and USA Swimming. And it is -- I am certain that Ryan Lochte will be suspended. He has not been suspended yet. And that decision may not even come for a few days. They've got to get obviously everyone back, talk to all these people, not just one athlete, not just Michael Phelps with the marijuana picture and that's a three-month suspension by USA Swimming. There are a lot of people to talk to. But Ryan Lochte and all the other swimmers, I am sure, will be suspended. It may well be USA Swimming doing the suspending and the USOC also suspending or they may actually do it together as one. But there's a lot yet to come. There is no doubt that discipline will be strict. It will be tough on them. The U.S. Olympic Committee is very angry and USA Swimming. We saw it in their statements. They are unhappy that the games were basically hijacked for almost a week by this drunken rampage of these three Americans, obviously, late early actually on Sunday morning.</s>COOPER: Now, after this apology from Lochte, do we know what kind of impact this may have or is having on sponsors?</s>BRENNAN: We know we've been trying to reach sponsors. They've been going quiet. One of them, interestingly said, Anderson, that they're going to follow the lead of the U.S. Olympic Committee. Well, I am certain that the U.S. Olympic Committee is going to end up suspending Ryan Lochte or in concert with the USA Swimming, as I mentioned. So if you're following the lead of the USOC then that tells me that you're not happy and you may well want to eventually drop him. So we don't know yet for sure. We also know that the apology may have helped. I had one person tell me that the only way for Ryan Lochte to not have a lifetime ban would be to apologize. They were waiting for that apology and they have now, of course, received it, but it was a bit of an explanation and an apology, hedging on some things and I'm not so sure that everyone's happy about that, either, so.</s>COOPER: Right.</s>BRENNAN: Throw all of that in the mix, Anderson, there's a lot going on.</s>COOPER: Yeah. I mean, he didn't really cop up to kind of details of, you know, what he actually did. This $11,000 payment that one of the swimmers, not Lochte, agreed to pay to a Brazilian charity as part of the deal to avoid prosecution, what more do we know about that? Because I understand it went to a good group which is actually has connections to the Olympics and to judo.</s>BRENNAN: Exactly. It helps children who are learning judo here in Brazil. My sense, and as a PR situation, really, to me, this whole story has become all about public relations. We're never going to know exactly what happened.</s>COOPER: Right.</s>BRENNAN: There's going to be a he said, he said going on the whole time. We know that. But my sense is if these other swimmers want to start doing some good work, they'll also be doing that.</s>COOPER: Yeah.</s>BRENNAN: And Ryan Lochte, who again, for those few days basically nothing, we understand the legal side of it, but this is in the court of public relations and at this point, I think Ryan Lochte should be probably thinking of doing some of those things, as well.</s>COOPER: Yeah. Well, extremely, a lot of kids in need and a lot of communities in Brazil. So, he could do a lot of good. Christine Brennan, thanks so much. Up next, more breaking news, a new Zika warning from the CDC for popular vacation destination right here in the United States. Plus, an update on that little boy, dazed, confused, bloodied after surviving an air strike in Syria. Some welcoming news about how he is doing. 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