For one long chilling moment behind the starting blocks, Lilly King stared down Yulia Efimova. Then, about a minute later, sending a message to the alleged Russian drug cheats who populate these Olympics, she beat her down. Her appearance here is such a sham that even her former coach at the Trojan Swim Club — a USC-based postgraduate club swimming team — is calling foul. She stopped a two-time drug offender from turning a sordid history into gold, defeating Russia’s Efimova by a half-second in winning the 100-meter breaststroke. Later, on NBC, King explained herself: “You’re shaking your finger number-one and you’ve been caught for drug cheating.

Source: Los Angeles Times August 09, 2016 06:11 UTC