"I don't know if I agree with the attitude, 'once a drug cheat, always a drug cheat' - I think there is space and there needs to be room within policy for small mistakes." Australian swimmer Mack Horton labelled Sun Yang of China a drug cheat before beating him in the 400m freestyle final, due to Sun's three-month ban for doping in 2014. "I used the words drug cheat because he tested positive," Horton said. His calls were echoed by France's Camille Lacourt, who told French radio that Sun "pisses purple" after the Chinese swimmer won the 200m freestyle. It has been revealed that Efimova was one of two convicted drug cheats who escaped testing for five months last year.

Source: New Zealand Herald August 10, 2016 00:56 UTC