{"id":266,"date":"2016-08-23T14:01:16","date_gmt":"2016-08-23T18:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/sportsenterprise\/?p=266"},"modified":"2016-08-23T14:01:16","modified_gmt":"2016-08-23T18:01:16","slug":"ryan-lochte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/sportsenterprise\/ryan-lochte\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Lochte"},"content":{"rendered":"

One thing that surprised me about sports, as of late, was how “Lochte Gate” was handled.<\/p>\n

Lochte first told USA Today<\/a> about the incident on August 14. The USOC spokesperson, Patrick Sandusky, made a statement about the incident but then an IOC spokesperson denied the allegations.<\/p>\n

The only other people quoted in that article about the incident were people who were not present for it. Lochte’s mother was quoted as was Michael Phelps. Two people who had nothing to do with the situation and we’re going off of here say. Neither of the other two swimmers with him were asked about the incident.<\/p>\n

I feel like asking the two swimmers who were with him would have been the most logical thing to do.<\/p>\n

Gunnar Bentz didn’t even release a statement<\/a> about what happened until nearly a week after the accused situation occurred.<\/p>\n

The way the handling of this incident surprised me because the reporters, and or media outlets, seemed to speak to Lochte and everyone else but neglected to speak to the two other swimmers.<\/p>\n

I believe this could have been handled in a much more efficient way. Unfortunately, it was not and now Ryan Lochte has a long road a head of him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One thing that surprised me about sports, as of late, was how “Lochte Gate” was handled. Lochte first told USA Today about the incident on August 14. The USOC spokesperson, Patrick Sandusky, made a statement about the incident but then an IOC spokesperson denied the allegations. The only other people quoted in that article about … Continue reading Ryan Lochte<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18,21],"tags":[33],"class_list":["post-266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ashleigh","category-module-1","tag-surprising"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7MY21-4i","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":270,"url":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/sportsenterprise\/questions-for-lochte-gate\/","url_meta":{"origin":266,"position":0},"title":"Questions for Lochte Gate","author":"Ashleigh","date":"August 23, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"This is how I think I would have approached Lochte Gate: Ask for the\u00a0time, date, location of incident, and those involved - What type of gas station was it? 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