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When the mother of United States Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte told the media -- after a phone conversation with her son -- that Lochte had been robbed at gunpoint, the situation began to spiral out of control:Saturday (Aug. 13): Olympic indoor swimming events conclude.Sunday (Aug. 14): Lochtes mother, Ileana Lochte, tells USA Today that her son was robbed at gunpoint in Rio de Janeiro.Sunday (Aug. 14): Lochte tells NBC that he and fellow U.S. swimmers Gunnar Bentz, Jack Conger and James Feigen were robbed early that morning at gunpoint -- while sitting in a taxi -- by men posing as police.Sunday (Aug. 14): The U.S. Olympic Committee releases a statement with the swimmers account of events. The statement says the athletes are safe and cooperating with authorities.Sunday (Aug. 14): An International Olympic Committee spokesman initially says reports of the robbery are untrue, then reverses and apologizes, indicating he was relying on earlier incorrect information from the USOC.Tuesday (Aug. 16): A Brazilian police official tells The Associated Press that authorities cant find the taxi driver or witnesses, and that the swimmers were unable to provide key details in police interviews.Tuesday (Aug. 16): Lochte tells USA Today that the swimmers didnt initially report the incident to the IOC because we were afraid wed get in trouble.Tuesday (Aug. 16): Lochtes attorney, Jeff Ostrow, reiterates that the robbery did occur and says Lochte has returned to the U.S.Wednesday (Aug. 17): A Brazilian judge orders the seizure of Lochtes and Feigens passports. The U.S. State Department issues a statement encouraging those involved to cooperate with Brazilian law enforcement.Wednesday (Aug. 17): Brazilian authorities pull Bentz and Conger off a plane at the Rio airport, preventing them from leaving the country. Feigen tells USA Today he remains in Rio and is cooperating with authorities. A police source tells ESPN Brasil the swimmers were interviewed at the airport, with a Brazilian lawyer and representatives from the USOC and the U.S. Consulate present.Thursday (Aug. 18): A Brazilian police official tells The Associated Press that Lochte fabricated the account of the robbery.Thursday (Aug. 18): A Brazilian official tells the AP that Conger and Bentz confirmed Lochte fabricated the story.At a news conference, Brazilian police said the swimmers were not robbed at gunpoint at a gas station as they claimed, but a law enforcement official did say a security guard used a gun to control the situation involving Lochte, Feigen, Conger and Bentz.Thursday (Aug. 18):?According to an ABC News report,?Brazilian police have recommended that Lochte and Feigen be indicted on charges of falsely reporting a crime.Thursday (Aug. 18): USOC apologizes to our hosts in Rio and the people of Brazil for this distracting ordeal in the midst of what should rightly be a celebration of excellence.Friday (Aug. 19): In a post on Instagram, Lochte apologizes for his role in the incident. I waited to share these thoughts until it was confirmed that the legal situation was addressed and it was clear that my teammates would be arriving home safely, he wrote.Saturday (Aug. 20): In an interview with NBC that aired on Saturday, Lochte cites his own immature behavior for turning an incident involving unruly actions by the four swimmers into an international incident. Thats why Im taking full responsibility for it, because I overexaggerated that story, Lochte told NBC. If Id never done that, we wouldnt be in this mess. Those guys would never be in Rio, or were in Rio. None of this would have happened. It was my immature behavior. The 11-time Olympic medalist, Lochte has said he hopes to compete at the Tokyo Olympics in 2020. Cheap Swingman Mavericks Jerseys . -- Former San Diego Chargers safety Paul Oliver was found dead at his Atlanta-area home Tuesday night, and a medical examiner said Wednesday that the ex-player committed suicide. Cheap Mavericks Jerseys . 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American Kevin Streelman was in second place after shooting a 69. BELLEFONTE, Pa. -- Jurors heard Thursday that a former Penn State head football coach testified that Mike McQueary told him years before Jerry Sanduskys arrest that he had made a complaint about Sandusky to university administrators.The deposition by Tom Bradley was read during the fourth day of trial in McQuearys defamation and whistleblower lawsuit against the university over his treatment after Sanduskys 2011 child molestation arrest.Bradley said he fielded a rumor that made him approach McQueary, a fellow assistant under Paterno, in 2004 or 2005.Im not sure how this happened, but somebody said something and I asked Mike about it. He said there was an incident, Bradley said in May 2015. I dont know his exact words.Bradley said he asked McQueary what he did.He said, `I turned it in to Joe and Curley and Schultz, Bradley said, references to then-head coach Joe Paterno, then-athletic director Tim Curley and then-vice president Gary Schultz.He said he did not remember if McQueary used the word, sexual.It was not a long, detailed description, if thats what youre asking me, Bradley sadBradley also said he believes the school mistreated McQueary, citing a bowl game bonus McQueary wasnt given at the end of the 2011 season. Bradley was briefly the schools head coach after university trustees fired Paterno, in part over his handling of the McQueary complaint.Bradley said he never discussed the McQueary incident with Sandusky, although he would occasionally see him in team facilities after Sandusky retired in 1999.Questions about whether rumors regarding Sandusky had cropped up before the investigation that produced charges have long hung over the Penn State football program.A lawyer for Bradley, now UCLAs defensive coordinator, told The Associated Press this summer he never witnessed any inappropriate behavior and had no knowledge of alleged incidents in the 1980s and 1990s.The lawyer, Brett Senior, said Thursday he was not aware the testimony was being read. I think whatevers been said is old and stale, Senior said.Outside the courthouse after Thursdays session, McQueary declined comment about Bradleys deposition.McQueary has testified he saw Sandusky sexually abusing a boy in a team shower one evening in 2001 and reported it the next day to Paterno. He then met with Curley and Schultz about the incident a few days later.Nothing happpened in the matter for more than a decade, when authorities investigating another complaint about Sandusky got a tip suggesting they contact McQueary.ddddddddddddMcQueary testified against Sandusky at the 2012 criminal trial that resulted in a 45-count conviction.In the civil case, McQueary is seeking more than $4 million in lost wages and other claims.The school maintains it did not retaliate against McQueary and that he was damaged in the publics eye by questions about why he didnt physically intervene to help the boy or call police.Earlier Thursday, former Penn State President Graham Spanier testified that he issued a statement the day Curley and Schultz, two of his top lieutenants, were charged, calling the allegations groundless because he trusted them and believed they were honest people.McQuearys lawsuit against the university alleges Spaniers statement made it appear McQueary was a liar.Spanier said he came to trust Curley and Schultz after working closely with them for many years. They were charged with perjury and failure to properly report suspected child abuse.This was an unbelievable injustice, that these two guys, who are like Boy Scouts, would be charged with a crime, Spanier said. And thats what was in my head as I was giving this opinion.Spanier began drafting the statement about a week earlier. He said thats when the schools then-general counsel got a tip through the attorney generals office that Sandusky, Curley and Schultz would be charged.Spanier was forced out by the board of trustees a few days later, and the next year he also was charged over his handling of the Sandusky matter. A state appeals court earlier this year threw out several of the charges against all three administrators, but they remain accused of failure to properly report suspected abuse and endangering the welfare of children. They await trial in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.He said he wasnt thinking about McQueary when drafting the statement, and in fact didnt realize at that time that McQueary was a key figure in the investigation and an unnamed assistant described in the grand jury presentment used to help charge Sandusky.---Associated Press reporter Michael R. Sisak in Philadelphia contributed to this story. ' ' '