Olympic gold medalist, Ryan Lochte, celebrates at TAO Beach Las Vegas by greeting fans and partying with friends, August 17, 2012 © Al Powers, PowersImagery.com

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Based in his up and down performance in the London Olympics and some comments from him and his mom, many suspect that Ryan Lochte started celebrating his Gold medals while he was in London. But now the Olympics are over and as you can see from the photos above Ryan Lochte is in full party mode.

Lochte is obviously having a blast with a bunch of bikini babes at Maxim Fridays at TAO Beach. The night before he partied the night away at Worship Thursday at TAO.

The guy definitely deserves to enjoy himself. He busted his ass preparing for the Olympics and came away with two gold medals. He’s not quite in the Michael Phelps league, but he’s one of the best swimmers in the world.