Ryan Lochte on why he doesn't display medals, post-retirement depression and his Olympic scandal

Published: Jul 26, 2024 Duration: 00:02:36 Category: News & Politics
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Well, a big night in Paris and one Olympic champion from our area knows all about the excitement. Ryan Lochte is the second most decorated male swimmer in Olympic history with a dozen medals. Lochte set off an international controversy when he claimed he was robbed at a gas station at the Rio Olympics. Now he's moving all past that. Our genie Blaylock spoke with the gator alum at his home in Gainesville all the time, all the time. Ryan Lochte says he still gets choked up watching the Olympics for him. 12 Olympic medals. He says he has chlorine in his veins when you're sleeping. Are you like still kicking and racing? My wife says that she's like, uh were you swimming last night in your sleep? I'm like, why? And she's like because you're moving nonstop, you're going like this with your shoulders now, a death, a three, his newest, a baby girl, Georgia June. Oh, that's cute. So we made her one year birthday all about peaches and his little boy likes wearing daddy's medals. But this Olympics. Harry Ryan won't be racing. He's retired because I'm so old. No, you're not old. You are about to turn 40. But the memories like beating Michael Phelps, that world's 2011, Shanghai. I blacked out. I blacked out. I touched the wall and I was like, yes, it's exciting. But you have to beat your body up all the time just to get a fraction of a second faster. And then after the medals and you hang up the goggles, like you're like, what now you're lost, you're like completely lost. Ryan found himself. I went through depression in a dark space. I was waking up and looking at myself in the mirror and being like, who, who is this disgusting person? Like this is just awful. He turned to his family and he says to Michael Phelps who fought depression himself despite his success, the most decorated Olympian ever 28 medals. And he was the one that actually kind of helped me out because he went through it. And now Ryan says his mission is healing, traveling around the country with lifetime fitness to teach kids to swim and more. I get in the pool actually hands on with them. I teach them about mental health and all those Olympic medals, not one displayed in his house. Yeah, it's cool. But I don't know, I'd rather hold my kids then put it on the middle.

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