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Lochte won the first of his six Olympic gold medals as a relay swimmer in Athens
US swimmer Ryan Lochte
But he was suspended from swimming for 10 months after a scandal at Rio, when he was found to have fabricated a story about a robbery during a drunken late-night episode in the Olympic host city. He received a further 14-month ban by the US Anti-Doping Agency for taking a banned intravenous infusion of vitamins in May of 2018 -- returning last year to launch his latest Olympic bid after undergoing treatment for alcohol abuse and starting a family with his wife, Kayla.
The couple have two children, son, Caiden and daughter Liv. "There's still so much more I want to accomplish in this sport," Lochte said. "I'm not going to let this get in the way of it.
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