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Ryan Lochte of the United States shows off the Bronze Medal he won in the Men's 200m Backstroke Finals.

 

Ryan Lochte of the United States shows off the Bronze Medal he won in the Men’s 200m Backstroke Finals.

Best avoid the Olympic swimming pool until it’s drained after the games: American swimming star Ryan Lochte, who won five medals in London, has admitted to urinating in the pool.

 

Not during the races, he told U.S. broadcaster Ryan Seacrest — “but I sure did in warmup.”

Um … why? “I think there’s just something about getting into chlorine water that you just automatically go.”

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» 24 Comments

  1. ruble

    August 4th, 2012

    Sorry, that’s just wrong.

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  2. Saxindacity

    August 4th, 2012

    Maybe he asked to swim in the peeing lane.

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  3. Anonymous

    August 4th, 2012

    good looking and as classless as a pile of dung.

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  4. hanoverfist

    August 4th, 2012

    With an Endless Pools add on the site.

    LOL

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  5. Sarthurk

    August 4th, 2012

    what?

    From a biological standpoint, most of you wouldn’t understand, so it’s not worth explaining.

    Turd in a pool, now that’s different…

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  6. uncivil & right

    August 4th, 2012

    This really pisses me off.

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  7. Renthal

    August 4th, 2012

    Don’t we all?

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  8. Barry

    August 4th, 2012

    @Sarhurk…please explain. To me, there’s nothing more relaxing than going to our community pool and tossing a tray (a number one and a number two). I always laugh a little with it floats to the top of the water a rub my back.

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  9. Sarthurk

    August 4th, 2012

    Barry, you got some ‘splainin’ to do.

    God forbid should someones hair or dead skin cells fall of into the pool as well. This inventory could get worse

    Chlorine is good!

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  10. Nutjob

    August 4th, 2012

    I guess its better then this

    http://youtu.be/sOJMV6i3bjM

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  11. John Cooper

    August 4th, 2012

    I think what Sarthurk was getting at was that a pint of urine in a 660,000 gallon olympic-sized swimming pool is…well…not much. My calculator says less than 2 ppm. Hell, there’s probably more than that in your drinking water.

    In my younger days my buds and I were floating down the Salt River near Phoenix. There were thousands of people doing the same that day, all of them drinking beer and peeing in Phoenix’s drinking water. Being engineers, we calculated that roughly 20,000 gallons of urine was added to the river each day.

    Bon apetit!

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  12. AbigailAdams

    August 4th, 2012

    Whether urine in a pool is biologically good or bad — the point is to be an adult and to say that you don’t relieve yourself before you go in the pool and pee in it is, well, childish. And I’m up to my eyeballs with childishness from adults. 25-26 is an adult.

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  13. Billy Fuster

    August 4th, 2012

    So am I to suppose that wasn’t a Snickers bar?

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  14. AbigailAdams

    August 4th, 2012

    …and what a stupid question to ask in the first place. Puerile.

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  15. super toe

    August 4th, 2012

    Mark Spitz – CLASS
    Lochte – ASS
    Yeah I am showing my age here but I don’t care. I still think Mark Spitz is the best swimmer.
    Phelps might have all the gold but Spitz had the looks.
    Plus, he looked like a real man with hair.
    Not some shaved baby-assed 6 and a half foot wanker.

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  16. BigSlurpy

    August 4th, 2012

    See. I told you it wasn’t me.

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  17. MaryfromMarin

    August 4th, 2012

    I hope he is okay with being known for the rest of his life as the Olympian who peed in the pool. Some facts just become inextricably linked with people.

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  18. Granny Flash

    August 4th, 2012

    Honestly…how many of the Olympic swimmers do you think did not pee in the pool. Do you think the losers did not “leave their mark”. Get real! There is probably more urine in that pool than water.

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  19. Cynic

    August 4th, 2012

    That wasn’t the kind of Olympic gold we wanted to hear about.

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  20. Nutjob

    August 4th, 2012

    So like a fat person sitting right next to the buffet I guess this answers the question on why most of the divers are gay……like it fresh out of the tap.

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  21. norman einstein

    August 4th, 2012

    Ewwww. Reminds me of the South Park episode when they let the first graders in the pool.
    The water turned yellow before you could say “Go”.

    @John Cooper, thanks for sharing, but what I want to know is, do you pee in your bathtub?

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  22. reader

    August 4th, 2012

    This guy is a piece of work. $100,000 in “grills” yet his parents are being foreclosed on. His MOM said he only has time for one night stands (ewwww) and now he admits to peeing in the pool.

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  23. andre

    August 4th, 2012

    Role models aren’t what they used to be.

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  24. The Doktor

    August 4th, 2012

    Mrs. Doktor:
    “After all of the wonderful publicity that the US has received over the last few days about our Olympic Medal Winners, we will remembered for peeing in the pool thanks to this numbnuts.”

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