Ryan Lochte
publication date: Monday, July 30, 2012 (part of Summer 2012)
category: Sports
clue: This Rochester native earned America's first gold medal of 2012. Phelps who?
explanation: Fellow swimmer Michael Phelps was expected to dominate the Olympics, and he did very well, but Lochte garnered a fair amount of media attention all by himself. more…
solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, LaVonne Lemler, Samir Mehta, Richard Slominsky, Justin Woods, Matthew Preston, Denise Sawicki, Joanna Woods, Erik Bates, Mike Rothstein, Steve Dunn, Mike Eberhart, Aaron Shurtleff, Ryan Dunn, and Elaine Beckland

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