Photo Courtesy: Dancing with the Stars
Olympic gold medalist Ryan Lochte and dancing partner Cheryl Burke were not at their best in their Rumba in Monday night’s episode of Dancing with the Stars, but they performed well as part of “Team Past” to ensure they would survive yet another week of elimination.
Dancing to “I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing,” Lochte and Burke scored all 7s on their Rumba, and the resulting 28 matched them for the worst score of the evening. But later, during tean Freestyle dance (to “The Skye Boat Song,”) Lochte helped Team Past score a 38, and the duo was safe.
Watch Lochte and Burke dance the Rumba here:
Watch Lochte dance as part of “Team Past” here:
Lochte and Burke will return to the dance floor next Monday, Oct. 31, for a “Halloween Night” show.
freakin COWARD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Chad:
You are beyond STUPID. Ryan Loche did nothing wrong, has nothing to apologize for and is a true American hero!
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I don’t watch DWTS and haven’t since my mom died. However, i’m not entirely sure why anyone feels the need to continue to call Ryan Lochte names. Get a life. He must be able to dance reasonably well if he’s made it this long. I guess some people are unhappy because he’s handsome, an uber talented swimmer and gets to be on tv and they aren’t.
The guy made up a story about being robbed at gunpoint, then changes his story, and expects people to just forgive him. That isn’t very nice. Besides, ‘DWTS’ is a glorified popularity contest, any how. Isn’t Maureen McCormick still on? Mr. Lochte is a screwball who has nothing to do with his free time since he’s been suspended throught next Summer’s swimming championships. Freedom of speech. People are entitled to their opinions. If YOU don’t like them, why don’t YOU get a life?
Vicious. Anywhere else and I’d steer clear.
Calo Gv
I agree with Rick…I have been watching DWTS and he has improved a lot since he began. It seems that people enjoy making him the punchbag of jokes (the latest is that he didn’t accurately report his dog’s age…math skills not up to par apparently). Not that swimming ability is/should be the measure of a person, but how many people who criticize him even come close to what he has accomplished – it shows dedication, hard work and he’s genuinely trying to make amends. Do people want to see him self-flagellate or punish himself for the rest of his life?
Absolutely!! You can say that again and again and again. People are very jealous of his success and his looks. He has more than made amends for things that he never did. Get this: RYAN DID NOTHING WRONG. He committed no crime, he did not threaten public safety and he certainly did NOT cheat in his sport. The individuals who protested his presence both on the floor and in the media are nothing but morons and illiterate losers. RYAN WILL NOT STOP UNTIL HE TAKES THE MIRROR BALL TROPHY TO ADD IT T HIS COLLECTION OF OLYMPIC METALS. We should be cheering him on!
Don’t think so,Dougie. Normal people don’t make up a story about being robbed in a taxi when they are trying to cover up a story about being drunk and having to pee against a wall because they couldn’t get into a locked restroom.
That is where you are dead wrong. Ryan described the events accurately. He was the victim of a robbery and extortion. Period. End of story.
Will you stop covering him? He literally shamed our sport, the USA, the Olympic Games, and refused to take ownership. He’s an asshole, and our youth swimmers should not look up to him in any way.
What didn’t he take ownership of? I’d like to see him swear off getting drunk again – but nobody does that.
Man I just can’t see how our sport, the Olympics, and the USA, will ever recover from this incident.
Excuse me while I vote for our next president now. Whoever he or she is, we can be sure he or she will be so much better (NOT) than the typical executives in the history of the United Nations and of the Olympic leadership. And thankfully, USA swimming has never had sex scandals and no one on any USA team has ever been caught doping.
I agree with Gary whole heartedly.
Elizabeth, Gary was being facetious. He made the point that the incident was overblown. He meant the sport and country WILL recover fine. I think you are more in line with Jake. I really don’t think they were covering up anything…although it’s rude, I doubt they were trying to cover up for peeing. The taxi made a special stop so that meant they had to go badly and when the bathroom was out of order, they peed behind the building. They got back into the taxi and then the incident with the gun took place. They probably never made a connection from peeing to seeing a gun. They thought it was a holdup – an unrelated incident and were alarmed by this. Once they figured it out they paid whatever money they had. So in a way it is extortion, although they probably realized during the money exchange it was for damages. So there was a lot of misunderstanding and the Rio police took charge of the narrative, blowing this up. Ryan told his mother..if she hadn’t talked to the press, this story would not be a story. He had no intention to talk about the incident, but once the press found out, they pursued it.
Žiga Mesec
I also agree with Jake’s comments, too. By saying ownership, I think Jake meant, he refused to be responsible for the comments he made?
I find it disturbing that a relatively small incident like this can derail someone’s career. Who had the gun in this story? Who holds up a gun for tearing down a poster? The press was in the wrong – there was no story, but there must be hypersensitivity in Rio that this can’t be passed off as a minor incident (except for the gun which was inappropriate). Maybe They went to a party, drank too much, had the sense to take a taxi and not drive, and their bladders were full. If the bathroom had been working, then this would have been a non-incident completely.He probably hadn’t had a drink in a while preparing for the Olympics. Ryan is not mean-spirited from what I can see. What’s impressive is that even being somewhat happy-go-lucky, he can be as disciplined and focused on his sport. He doesn’t take himself too seriously (I saw one video clip where he couldn’t even remember how many medals he had). Give him a break…so he’s not an academic. But how many people can accomplish what he has done?
Savannah: Very well put!
All of your comments should be informative to those that got anything wrong – as you did not.