This immediately raises two questions: Have they? And if so, Why? Toward the beginning of his doc, Lochte makes the case for this vanity project’s existence: “Everyone’s been, ‘Well, where the hell’s Ryan Lochte?’” he says. It also zooms out to take a look at Lochte’s reputation over the years-and his extremely unlikely bid to make the team for the now-postponed Summer Olympics in Tokyo. In Deep with Ryan Lochte, an hour-long profile of the swimmer now available on NBC’s freshly launched streaming service, Peacock, examines Lochte’s 2016 Olympics scandal, in which he lied and said he and two other swimmers had been the victims of an armed robbery. This was especially true in the 2010s, when Lochte converted his athletic prowess into broader cultural fame, netting an appearance on 30 Rock in 2012 and, a year later, his very own short-lived reality series, What Would Ryan Lochte Do? (Think Jersey Shore but less fun because, well, it’s set in North Central Florida.) Over the years, Lochte cultivated not only a reputation as a world-class athlete with handfuls of medals and a few world records, but also as the ur-party-bro with a viral catchphrase: “Jeah!” Next to Tom Petty and the Florida Gators, Ryan Lochte is probably Gainesville’s best-known export. After all, how often are you going to run into someone in your hometown that anyone outside your hometown cares about? As with all of these small-town run-ins, nothing really happened it just became one of those funny stories we’d remember every now and again. When you hail from a college town like Gainesville, you come to relish these rare encounters. Years ago, in late high school or early college, some friends and I were chowing down when we saw Lochte just a few tables away with his own crew. For the uninitiated, that’s a Tex-Mex restaurant chain with killer chimichangas-one of many chain restaurants you’ll find in Gainesville, Florida, the hometown the Olympic swimmer and I share.
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