{"id":328,"date":"2016-08-25T19:32:19","date_gmt":"2016-08-25T23:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/sportsenterprise\/?p=328"},"modified":"2016-08-25T19:32:19","modified_gmt":"2016-08-25T23:32:19","slug":"surprising-lochte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/sportsenterprise\/surprising-lochte\/","title":{"rendered":"Surprising-Lochte"},"content":{"rendered":"

Al Roker gets into heated argument on 'Today' show over Ryan Lochte<\/a><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/olympics\/rio-2016\/2016\/08\/24\/ryan-lochte-dancing-with-the-stars-dwts-cast\/89306932\/<\/p>\n

This Ryan Lochte story continues to fascinate me. It very much was an international incident, and the legs that it has and continues to have is remarkable. <\/p>\n

There are so many facets and angles that have emerged from this story that have expanded well beyond the second day. We are now into the celebrity and outside source part of it, from Al Roker garnering praise and then admonishment from the public and his bosses respectively to Ryan Lochte now, for lack of a better word, capitalizing on his spotlight by joining Dancing With the Stars.<\/p>\n

This was by far the biggest non-athletic story to come out of Rio, and the fact that it is still something that is being talked about and debated a week later is wild. It has down likely irreparable damage to Lochte’s reputation and but a scab on an otherwise extremely successful Olympics for USA Swimming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Al Roker gets into heated argument on 'Today' show over Ryan Lochte http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/olympics\/rio-2016\/2016\/08\/24\/ryan-lochte-dancing-with-the-stars-dwts-cast\/89306932\/ This Ryan Lochte story continues to fascinate me. It very much was an international incident, and the legs that it has and continues to have is remarkable. There are so many facets and angles that have emerged from this story that have … Continue reading Surprising-Lochte<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":211,"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":[13,21],"tags":[33],"class_list":["post-328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evan","category-module-1","tag-surprising"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7MY21-5i","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":330,"url":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/sportsenterprise\/lochte-questions\/","url_meta":{"origin":328,"position":0},"title":"Lochte questions","author":"ebg308","date":"August 25, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"1. 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