New Posts For Thread: Ryan Lochte - US media responseshttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30725933/ryan-lochte---us-media-responsesSome classic responses here from the Yank press.Slate:"Maybe he's just a lunk, or a doofus, or a Faulknerian idiot man-child, or the real-world analogue of Moose from Archie. There are all sorts of unflattering descriptors that might apply to Ryan LoHe'll have to take part in his next race in his Y-fronts.https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30725933/ryan-lochte---us-media-responses?post_id=549755671#549755671He'll have to take part in his next race in his Y-fronts.Wed, 24 Aug 2016 15:29:24 -0500http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-37159288So Ryan's lost all his lucrative sponsors.https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30725933/ryan-lochte---us-media-responses?post_id=549742461#549742461http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-37159288So Ryan's lost all his lucrative sponsors.Tue, 23 Aug 2016 03:01:17 -0500very good, popydog.https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30725933/ryan-lochte---us-media-responses?post_id=549717265#549717265very good, popydog.Sat, 20 Aug 2016 11:08:21 -0500Lochte should really blame his team-mates. He'd have got away with it, if it wasn't for those medalling kidshttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30725933/ryan-lochte---us-media-responses?post_id=549717251#549717251Lochte should really blame his team-mates. He'd have got away with it, if it wasn't for those medalling kidsSat, 20 Aug 2016 11:06:53 -0500Yes, salmon, I see what you meant. Anyway, better desist now, in case we get get pointed in the direction of the Literature forum by disgruntled Olympics fans.https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30725933/ryan-lochte---us-media-responses?post_id=549717175#549717175Yes, salmon, I see what you meant. Anyway, better desist now, in case we get get pointed in the direction of the Literature forum by disgruntled Olympics fans.Sat, 20 Aug 2016 11:02:28 -0500Yep Benji is the one I meant. I agree with you that he is not comparable,hence my remark about Faulkner hardly being sports journalists' reading.https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30725933/ryan-lochte---us-media-responses?post_id=549716223#549716223Yep Benji is the one I meant. I agree with you that he is not comparable,hence my remark about Faulkner hardly being sports journalists' reading.Sat, 20 Aug 2016 10:07:42 -0500Yep Des you have to be aware of the do's and dont's when you're abroad. There are many areas within Rio where the Police will not venture and many areas where armed security is the only way of keeping hold of what you own.https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30725933/ryan-lochte---us-media-responses?post_id=549715965#549715965Yep Des you have to be aware of the do's and dont's when you're abroad. There are many areas within Rio where the Police will not venture and many areas where armed security is the only way of keeping hold of what you own.Sat, 20 Aug 2016 09:48:14 -0500I take your point, Cooperman. I was not aware of the full facts, and their behaviour certainly seems to have been reprehensible. I just wonder how many tourists (and locals) are threatened and ripped of by so-called security guards, going way beyondhttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30725933/ryan-lochte---us-media-responses?post_id=549715053#549715053I take your point, Cooperman. I was not aware of the full facts, and their behaviour certainly seems to have been reprehensible. I just wonder how many tourists (and locals) are threatened and ripped of by so-called security guards, going way beyondSat, 20 Aug 2016 08:42:03 -0500If you mean Benjy, I don't see the comparison with successful, but selfish and irresponsible US swimmers, yes he may have been described in that way (idiot man-child), but he is a sympathetic and sensitive character, beset with self- doubt and hamperhttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30725933/ryan-lochte---us-media-responses?post_id=549715009#549715009If you mean Benjy, I don't see the comparison with successful, but selfish and irresponsible US swimmers, yes he may have been described in that way (idiot man-child), but he is a sympathetic and sensitive character, beset with self- doubt and hamperSat, 20 Aug 2016 08:37:51 -0500The idiot manchild is the character in "The Sound and the Fury " I imagine. I doubt many sports journalists have actually read Faulkner though so it's probably from a list of stock phraes for hacks.https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30725933/ryan-lochte---us-media-responses?post_id=549713133#549713133The idiot manchild is the character in "The Sound and the Fury " I imagine. I doubt many sports journalists have actually read Faulkner though so it's probably from a list of stock phraes for hacks.Sat, 20 Aug 2016 06:03:45 -0500