#LochteGate Lingers After 2016 Olympics | Andrew Brandt

Now that Rio de Janeiro has passed the Olympic Flame to 2020 Games host Tokyo, athletes, coaches and fans can return home to celebrate the completion of this four-year trek. And as Brazil begins cleaning up the party, the lawyers are just getting started.

I joined MSNBC the morning after the Closing Ceremony to discuss the marketing and financial fallout from Ryan Lochte’s over-exaggerated robbery claims, a flawed account that dominated global headlines for most of the two-week Games.



My commentary on this story came to a close on this week’s Business of Sports podcast. Going solo this week, I wrapped up my thoughts on Lochte and his USA Swimming teammates’ antics, and shifted the conversation back to football with rants on the latest NFL controversies: New York Giants kicker Josh Brown’s one-game suspension and the player interviews resulting from the December 2015 Al-Jazeera PED report.