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When Anna Wintour took swimmer Ryan Lochte under her wing, bringing him from relative obscurity all the way to the cover of Vogue, she was probably not expecting him to turn around and wear an American-flag grill on his teeth at the Olympics. Sigh. Why can't Lochte be more like Wintour's other pet athlete, Roger Federer? [Yahoo Sports]