UPDATE: This story just keeps getting better.
The latest on the Lochte's "Watergate" scandal, Brazilian TV network Globo released a video of the Olympic swimmer at the gas station nearby where the alleged robbery happened.
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A Brazilian judge has ordered that Ryan Lochte and U.S. teammate Jimmy Feigen stay in Brazil as authorities investigate their claim they were robbed during the Olympics.
Lochte’s father, Steve Lochte, said on Wednesday that his son was back on U.S. soil.
"I'm just happy he's safe," the elder Lochte told the Associated Press. "It was an unfortunate experience for him and the other three. I don't know what all the controversy is. They were basically taken out of the taxi and robbed. The main thing is he's very lucky that he's safe and that all they got was his cash and wallet."
Lochte and three of his teammates said they were robbed at gunpoint in a taxi Sunday morning as they returned to the athletes village from a party, several hours after the last Olympic swimming events were held.
Police have found little evidence so far to support their accounts, and say the swimmers were unable to provide key details in police interviews.
The office of Brazilian Judge Keyla Blank confirmed the order to seize the passports of Lochte and Feigen in a statement Wednesday.
The U.S. Olympic Committee said police went to the athletes village Wednesday morning to try to collect the passports, but the swim team had already moved out.
The U.S. State Department issued a statement Wednesday encouraging those involved to cooperate with Brazilian law enforcement.
"Why would anybody fabricate anything?" Steve Lochte said. "It's just ridiculous."
An anonymous source told AP that police cannot find their taxi driver or witnesses.
Lochte swam in two events at the Rio Games, winning gold in the 4x200-meter freestyle relay. He is a 12-time Olympic medalist. He is second to Michael Phelps in most decorated Olympian of all-time.
This is how Lochte described the incident to NBC's "Today" show .
"We got pulled over, in the taxi, and these guys came out with a badge, a police badge, no lights, no nothing just a police badge and they pulled us over," Lochte said. "They pulled out their guns, they told the other swimmers to get down on the ground -- they got down on the ground. I refused, I was like we didn't do anything wrong, so -- I'm not getting down on the ground.
"And then the guy pulled out his gun, he cocked it, put it to my forehead and he said, `Get down,' and I put my hands up, I was like `whatever.' He took our money, he took my wallet -- he left my cellphone, he left my credentials."
Who Do you Believe? Lochte or do you think something is up?
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