Ryan Lochte is a 12-time Olympic gold medalist, second only to Michael Phelps, and he did just win gold in the 4x200M Freestyle Relay at the 2016 Rio games.

But most of us know him as the guy who lied about being held up at gunpoint to Rio Police.

via campusriot.com
via campusriot.com

“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 told NBC. “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…'”

Scary stuff! Except it was totally made up. What really happened that night is basically Lochte and his U.S. teammates Jack Conger, Gunnar Bentz and Jimmy Feigen drunkenly vandalizing a Rio gas station.

“I was intoxicated,” says Lochte

He did a “tell-all” interview with Matt Lauer that really didn’t help. Lochte has been dropped by every single one of his sponsors this week, and seems to be universally hailed for giving bros a bad name.

So Stephen Colbert decided he needed to have his own talk with Lochte. In this definitely-not-edited “interview,” Colbert splices in footage from the Lauer interview to call him out.

One of my favourite parts? When Colbert reminds Lochte that he told everyone a gun was held to his head.

“That didn’t happen, and that’s why I over-exaggerated that part,” says edited-in Lochte.

“That part is really the whole part,” retorts Colbert. “Without a gun cocked to your forehead, it’s really just a story about some guys urinating on a gas station.”

You got it, bra. You got it.

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