Brazil police remove U.S. swimmers from plane

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Two American Olympic swimmers, Jack Conger and Gunnar Bentz, were taken off their flight from Rio de Janeiro to the U.S. on Wednesday after a Brazilian judge issued an order preventing them from leaving the country before their robbery case was resolved, United States Olympic officials said late Wednesday.

“You can see the supposed victims arriving without signs of being physically or psychologically shaken, even joking amongst themselves,” Judge Keyla Blanc de Cnop said in a statement, referring to video of the swimmers returning to the Olympic Village after the party.

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