U.S. Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte hit Twitter Monday after finishing a disappointing fourth in the men’s 200m freestyle to chat with his followers.
Lochte tweeted, “Not so happy about that swim tonight… you live and learn. Tomorrow I will be better.”
He added two hours later, “The greatest athletes suffer the hardest defeats before the biggest and best moments of their life…. God has a plan for everyone.”
Then he offered up a few cryptic tweets after warning, “I’m going to take a ten minute Olympic break to tweet some weird tweets to u all. Just different.”
The last two tweets are snippets taken from the ‘Fire Flame Remix’ by Birdman featuring Lil Wayne.
He told a reporter this morning, “Whatever happened last night, happened last night. You have to get over it and move on. I have a couple more races left. Just have to forget about it and move on.”
His next swim is the men’s 4×200-meter relay later today. Wednesday he and Michael Phelps will compete in the prelim and semifinal heats in the 200m individual medley. That final is Thursday night.
Lochte tweeted Tuesday morning, “Ready to take it on today. Let’s get it. #TeamUSA.”
Photo: Twitter-Ryan Lochte