Before the race, Horton was asked how he felt about doping violators including Sun competing at the Games, and responded: “I don’t have time or respect for drug cheats”.
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When Sun took the drug, it had been on the World Anti-Doping Agency’s list for less than five months, and today is no longer recognized as a stimulant by doping agencies.
French swimmer Camille Lacourt has taken a swipe at controversial Chinese swimmer Sun Yang, saying Sun’s urine was purple.
“When I see the 200m podium I want to be sick”.
“I have the impression I am looking at athletics, with two or three doped in each final”.
Lacourt called on the worldwide governing body FINA to do more to address the issue.
Phelps was referring directly to Russian swimmer Yulia Efimova, who won a silver medal in the women’s 100m breaststroke on Monday night.
Efimova was only allowed to compete at the Games after winning an appeal against a ban for a previous doping offence.
Meanwhile, Horton’s Wikipedia page was briefly reedited to say that he had learned racism “at his mother’s breasts”, the Guardian newspaper reported.
“You’re shaking your finger “number one” and you’ve been caught for drug cheating and I’m just not a fan”, she told cameras poolside on Sunday.
Horton “couldn’t hold in his cynical smugness after beating Sun, and the Australian media recklessly spread Horton’s rude speech”, the op-ed said.
JAMES GUY finished an agonising fourth in the 200 metres freestyle – with DRUG CHEAT Sun Yang taking gold.
“It won’t be an easy game for us”, said China’s head coach Lang Ping, “We have so many young players and they played a lot up and downs in our first two games”. There may also be legal questions around the limits of what can be said or implied about an already sanctioned athlete. “I’m very happy that I made breakthrough for my team and my country”, added Sun. Rarely do we see such unscripted individual honesty on hard topics such as doping, right in the middle of arguably the biggest worldwide sporting stage. “It’s something that needs to be set in stone to settle this”. Sun was banned by the Chinese Swimming Association for three months, in a suspension that wasn’t reported to WADA or FINA until after it had been completed, sparking a remarkable shitstorm that resulted in Sun being banned from training in Australia, among other sanctions. She has tested positive five times this year and she has got away with it.
They were only subjected to testing by their own national bodies, whose programmes have been discredited.
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Then there’s the chance that this issue could escalate to the detriment of Horton’s, and possibly the Australian swim team’s, coming performances.
