After days of confusion about what happened to Ryan Lochte, James Feigen, Jack Conger and Gunnar Bentz, closed-circuit TV footage of the incident early Sunday at a gas station in Rio de Janeiro answers a few questions, even if not the biggest one.
Bentz and Conger gave statements to police Thursday, denying having been victims of a robbery and said the version of events presented by Lochte was not true, Rio's civil police said.
They were dramatically pulled off their flight on Wednesday night and were barred from leaving Brazil until they gave police their account of what happened. But they were soon released and arrived in Miami early Friday morning, looking weary.
Lochte had already returned the United States, and Feigen appears to be in Brazil, but his exact whereabouts is unclear.
The US Olympic Committee CEO apologized for the incident after the video emerged, showing apparent lewd behavior by the swimmers at the gas station.
But there has been no word from Lochte over the events that led to what he called a robbery.
They do all agree on one thing: A gun was brandished, and money exchanged hands.
The stories, however, seem to diverge at a single point -- when Lochte re-entered a taxi after stopping at the station.
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