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It was China’s first swimming gold medal of the Rio Games. After saying he “had no time or respect for drug cheats” before the preliminaries, he again used the frank description in his post-race press conference despite being repeatedly confronted by Chinese reporters.
“Look, what I can say is that it was a real pity I couldn’t defend my 400 title”, he added.
She was allowed to participate in Rio following a successful appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, only to be called out by Team USA’s Lilly King following the American swimmer’s gold-medal win in the 100m breaststroke finals Monday night.
Horton’s harsh comment emerged in Australian media just hours before he defeated Yang to secure a gold medal in the 400m freestyle final event. Yang has other swimming contests ahead of him and the paper alleged that Horton was just trying to get into Yung’s head with a false charge.
Horton accused Sun of splashing him during the warm up before the race and later made references to drugs cheats and described his win as one “for the good guys”.
It has been revealed that Efimova was one of two convicted drug cheats who escaped testing for five months a year ago.
“You’re shaking your finger number one, and you’ve been caught for drug cheating“, King said to Efimova after both swimmers won their semi-finals.
Horton dethroned Sun as the 400 metres freestyle Olympic champion at the weekend, prompting the popular Chinese athlete to break down in tears.
The winning time of 1min.
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. China can not be distracted from its own path of development, so it should turn a blind eye to what should be despised.Horton and his backers represent the dark side of Australian society, and it is time for us to look at the bright side of the Olympic Games. She could win that but I don’t think she will, not with the roll Katinka Hosszu is now on. And I didn’t really focus on anything else.
“Because I have been focusing on training and competition, I had only a hazy knowledge of the law, which led to my mistake.”
The result is sure to fuel simmering tensions between the two rival nations.
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The Chinese swimming team demanded an apology, calling the comments a “malicious personal attack”, but Australia’s chef de mission Kitty Chiller insisted that they “have no intention of making an apology” and that Horton “has every right to express his views and his displeasure”.
