http://www.espn.com/olympics/swimming/story/_/id/17332952/2016-rio-olympics-brazil-officials-pull-us-swimmers-jack-conger-gunnar-bentz-flight

Police say they have found little evidence to support their accounts and say the swimmers were unable to provide key details in police interviews.

"Why would anybody fabricate anything?" Steve Lochte said. "It's just ridiculous."


A police official with knowledge of the investigation told The Associated Press that police cannot find their taxi driver or witnesses to the robbery. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation is ongoing.

Lochte's attorney, Jeff Ostrow, has said there is no question the robbery happened.

"My opinion is they are trying to use Ryan's situation to use as a scapegoat to show that things down there are not as bad as it looks," Ostrow told ESPN on Wednesday. "These types of things have happened with other people, like the New Zealand athlete, but they don't take half the interest they do with Ryan.