From Darcwonn at The Intersection of Madness and Reality:
Ryan Lochte knew what he was doing the moment he came up with that incredulous lie about being robbed at gunpoint in Brazil. However, I’m going to explain this after I build up the context of this main idea.
Ryan Lochte was raised in New York by a Cuban mother and a Dutch/German/English father. Eventually, his family moved to Florida so his father could coach swimming. In fact, Ryan would be present during many of these swimming classes. However, he would always be caught misbehaving. So much that Ryan was noted for being “in the showers” for punishment instead of actually having fun swimming.
Now, let us keep that (his behavior and the reaction to it) in mind as we fast-forward to the present debacle that Ryan Lochte has found himself in.