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KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
Wed Aug 31, 2016, 04:46 PM Aug 2016

A crime prevention company decided Ryan Lochte was a worthy sponsor

Not The Onion!

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/news/a-crime-prevention-company-decided-ryan-lochte-was-a-worthy-sponsor-171856025.html

I’m still not sure if Ryan Lochte was actually robbed in Rio de Janeiro.

The U.S. Olympic swimmer certainly exaggerated his version of events during a late-night rest stop, leaving out parts about urinating on and tearing a poster from the side of a gas station. Still, armed security guards did demand money from him and his friends. The whole controversy was ridiculous.

But it wasn’t enough to stop a company committed to crime prevention from signing Lochte, even if every major corporation associated with the three-time silver medalist dropped him as a sponsor.

Actually, because Speedo, Ralph Lauren and others canned Lochte in the aftermath of his disgraceful behavior at the Summer Olympics, the soon-to-be “Dancing With the Stars” contestant and Robocopp are a corporate fit. When you boil it down, they’re both desperate enough to benefit from the other.


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