Ryan Lochte, Olmypic Swimmer and Sex Symbol
International Herald Tribune Saturday 9th June, 2012
GAINESVILLE, Fla.
AFTER finishing three hours of laps, sprints and weighted strokes at the University of Florida's Olympic-size pool here, Ryan Lochte, the record-setting, gold medal-winning swimmer, was showing the briefest glimmer of fatigue.
"I just want to be done," he said on the drive to a nearby Hilton, steering his white Range Rover with his knee, sitting far down in the bucket seats, blasting Lil Wayne. He was to spend hours shooting a commercial for a cellphone company, posing shirtless on a locker room set.
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