Lochte was immature, but it's far from clear, based on the facts reported, that he lied. /QUOTE]
He lied. But that is because he and his athlete buddies felt superior and likely had a bit of alchool and felt they could hide their follish behaviour by making erroneous statements.
This is more about certain athletes feeling superior to everyone and able to get away with stupid tricks such as pissing on someone,s wall and causing damage to property.
The actions are excusable "bunch of drunken boys". But the official statements later, while sober to police, are inexcusable. Should have fessed up "we were =drunk, we are really sorry" and that would have stopped there. Because they blew things out of porportion and accused Brozilian police of wrong doing, Brazil had to investigate and found out that they were just a bunch of immature drunken "sailors" misbehaving while in port.