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SPORTS A17
Thursday 25 August 2016

Sports

 In this July 3, 2016, file pho- OH
to, U.S. swimmer Jimmy Fei- BOY!
gen smiles during the men’s
400-meter relay team medal Segedin homers, races to
ceremony at the U.S. Olympic hospital for son’s birth
swimming trials, in Omaha,
Neb. Los Angeles Dodgers’ Rob Segedin
celebrates after hitting a solo home
Associated Press run during the second inning of a
baseball game against the San
Swimmer Feigen Francisco Giants, Tuesday, Aug. 23,
apologizes for 2016, in Los Angeles.Â
Associated Press
‘serious distraction’ Page 20
in Rio Olympics

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S.
swimmer James Feigen
apologized for the “serious
distraction” he and three
teammates caused at a
gas station during the Rio
Olympics, saying he omit-
ted facts in his statement
to police. “I omitted the
facts that we urinated be-
hind the building and that
Ryan Lochte pulled a post-
er off the wall,” Feigen said
in a statement Tuesday on
the website of his lawyer in
Austin, Texas.
He maintains the group
didn’t force their way into
a bathroom and a gun
was pointed at them.
The 26-year-old Feigen said
the group left the French
House party around 5 a.m.
in a taxi to travel back to
the Athlete Village.
“We pulled over to a gas
station to use the bathroom
but the door was locked,”
Feigen’s statement read.
“We did not force entry
into the bathroom, nor did
we ever enter the bath-
room. We did, however,
make the regrettable deci-
sion to urinate in the grass
behind the building.”q