Olympic buzz: What is it with these swimmers?

A look back at Day 13 of competition at the Rio Olympics.

A hard day’s night

Now were you paying attention to the Ryan Lochte story?

Two Australian swimmers were given a big water splash to the face for failing to come back to the athletes village after a night out in Copacabana.

Emma McKeon, who won four medals, including a gold, said she got separated from team members and rather than take a cab back to the Olympic village by herself decided to stay with two female friends.

Josh Palmer also got separated from teammates and decided to just drink alone. Yeah, good call.

Their punishment is they can’t go to the closing ceremony, which isn’t a bad punishment. They also must stay in the village between 8 p.m. and 8 a.m., because as we know there is no tomfoolery going on there.

On an unrelated note, the IOC announced before the Games began that it was providing 450,000 condoms to the athletes in the village. That’s 42 per athlete. Honest.

Let it be

The USOC pretty much tapped out when they apologized for the actions of their swimmers in the Lochte robbery scandal. Chief executive Scott Blackmun called the swimmers’ actions not acceptable and asked the people of Rio for forgiveness. He said the swimmers will be dealt with when everyone was back in the U.S.

In the hopes of expanding everyone’s vocabulary, based on what we know, the word to describe Lochte is fabulist, someone who makes things up. It’s odd with a root word of fab, which if followed by a number such as “four” or “five” is a good thing. But if it’s followed by the non-word “rication,” it’s a bad thing.

Do you want to know a secret?

In the spirit of continuing to pound on this subject, Houston Mitchell, who authors The Times’ Dodgers Newsletter, put together this sports list of hoaxes and scams.

--Sidd Finch, a made-up Sports Illustrated story about a guy who threw 170 mph.

--Rosie Ruiz, who didn’t quite run the entire 1980 Boston Marathon course while winning it.

--Danny Almonte, who was almost legal drinking age when he pitched in the 2001 Little League World Series.

--2000 Spanish Paralympic basketball team, who had 10 of 12 members with high IQs in a game for developmentally disabled players.

--Manti Te’o’s fake girlfriend.

She said, she said

In another tale of the Ugly American, Hope Solo’s calling the Swedish soccer team “cowards” was called into question by teammate Megan Rapinoe. The most senior member of the U.S. team told NBC that she was “really disappointed” with Solo’s comments.

“Let’s inspire, let’s be badass, let’s be fierce, let’s be competitive,” Rapinoe said. “But we’re gracious and we’re humble, and we play the game a certain way, whether we win or lose.”

The “cowards” will play Germany for the gold medal Friday..

john.cherwa@latimes.com

Help provided by Times staff writers Kevin Baxter, Lisa Dillman, Helene Elliott, Nathan Fenno, Bill Plaschke and David Wharton.