Olympic swimming champion Lochte banned for 14 months

New York (SID) Six-time Olympic swimming champion Ryan Lochte (USA) has been banned for 14 months for violating anti-doping rules. The 33-year-old posted a photo on social networks in May of himself receiving an intravenous injection. These are only permitted during a stay in a hospital or under strict conditions. Lochte accepted the punishment, the US Anti-Doping Agency USADA said. His ban begins retroactively on May 24th and ends in July 2019. One month later, Lochte will be 35 years old. He recently stated that he wanted to continue his career until the 2020 Summer Games in Tokyo. Lochte only made his competitive comeback in August 2017 after his ten-month ban from the US association. Lochte and his US teammates Gunnar Bentz, Jack Conger and James Feigen, who were also banned for months, claimed to have been attacked at gunpoint on the sidelines of the games at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. This was not true, as it turned out a little later. The Americans had actually rioted at a gas station. Because of the lie, the 18-time long course world champion Lochte, who also collected 21 titles on the short course, initially lost all of his personal sponsors. The US association banned Lochte for ten months. He was therefore not allowed to defend his three titles from 2017 at the 2015 World Cup in Budapest.

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Olympic swimming champion Lochte banned for 14 months

Six-time Olympic swimming champion Ryan Lochte (USA) has been banned for 14 months for violating anti-doping rules.

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