Phelps won his 200-meter butterfly semifinal after his after South Africa’s Chad le Clos tried to psych him out with, among other things shadow boxing.
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“Those athletes who know me and see me in training and know I do my best”.
“I basically said what everybody thinks”, King added.
But Americans were involved in the doping controversy as well, Tracy reports, and when asked if USA track stars Justin Gatlin and Tyson Gay, both of whom were previously banned for drug offenses, should be allowed to compete, Lilly King said no. If you are not under a ban, regardless of what you may have served in the past, you are fully eligible to be on the team. The second time was not my mistake. “If yoghurt gets banned and you’re positive, is that your fault?”
While King and Miele celebrated, Efimova, 24, – who is also entered in the 200m breaststroke – hung on her lane rope before departing the pool deck alone.
“Whatever was in the past, was in the past”, he said. “I think it just breaks what sport is meant to be and that really annoys me”.
Teammate Nikolai Kuksenkov took his first Olympic medal at the age of 27 years.
U.S. swimmer Michael Phelps has backed his compatriot Lilly King’s attitude towards her fellow Olympic competitor, Russian Yulia Efimova, who has twice tested positive for banned substances.
And this could be why veteran Olympians like Michael Phelps, who was competing in his 5th Olympic Games in Rio, were frustrated by the lack of progress.
With two past doping suspensions, Efimova, bronze medalist in the event in London 2012, was initially excluded from the Rio Games but succeeded in a last-minute appeal last week to be allowed to compete.
She was banned between October 2013 and February 2015 after testing positive for traces of the anabolic steroid DHEA, and also briefly suspended after testing positive for meldonium this year. “At worlds we didn´t quite make it, but now we beat them”.
After posting the fastest qualifying time in the 100-meter breaststroke Sunday, King defiantly waved her finger in the air as if to say, “I’m number one”.
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King, of IN, beat a late Efimova charge to win IN an Olympic record of 1min 04.93sec, with the Russian second IN 1:05.50. “It’s like I am seeing athletics with two or three dopers in every final”, he was quoted as saying by French media. China finished the day with five gold medals in total.
