The swimmer’s account is either self-serving or the truth. Iirc, the charge against the Duke lacrosse players was that they were rich and privileged, so it followed without question that they had raped the poor black stripper.
I don’t know what happened in Brazil, but I’d believe the swimmers before I’d believe people who extorted in the neighborhood of $14,000 from them for a damaged restroom I have yet to see photographed.
Actually, I don’t care. When I was young, drunk and in situations like this in a foreign country, I was on my own. I didn’t have a realm of sympathetic apologists looking out for me.
BTW, by this person’s admission there was something torn down in case you missed it.