U.S. Olympic swimmers Gunnar Bentz and Jack Conger touched base back in the U.S. Friday morning, ABC News has affirmed.
The couple touched base at Miami International Airport around 6:30 a.m. on a flight that withdrew Rio de Janeiro Thursday evening.
Bentz, 20, and Conger, 21, were expelled from their U.S.- bound flight Wednesday evening by Brazilian police, who then met the pair about individual U.S. swimmer Ryan Lochte's case that he, Bentz, Conger and kindred Olympian James Feigen were victimized at gunpoint in Rio.
In any case, Rio police said Thursday that they don't trust that the men were burglarized and that they were not casualties.
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Rio's Civil Police Chief Fernando Veloso said one or a greater amount of the U.S. Olympians vandalized a washroom at a corner store after they cleared out a gathering early Sunday.
The competitors broke mirrors and harmed different things in the restroom, police said. The competitors at first declined to stay, however security requested that the taxi not depart. Someone else ventured into translate between the competitors and the watchmen, and the competitors left cash, police said.
A representative for the Rio de Janeiro Civil Police said that the division has suggested that Lochte and Feigen be accused of false reporting.
An attorney for Lochte, who is presently in the U.S., said he didn't know "of the government police prescribing charges for recording a false police report."
Feigen, in the interim, conceded to Thursday to make a $11,000 gift to a Brazilian philanthropy with an end goal to determine the disagreement about the theft guarantee, his legal advisor said.
ABC News' Rachel Katz and Charli James added to this report.
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