ENLARGE“I think it’s unfortunate that we have to deal with these things in this sport,” King said Sunday. ENLARGELilly King of the U.S. set an Olympic record in winning the 100-meter breaststroke Monday night in Rio, then punched the air with her fist. “A week ago, I didn’t even know if I could race because I’m Russian,” Efimova said after Monday’s race. King responded by wagging her finger at a TV monitor showing Efimova after King narrowly secured the top qualifying time for the final. Her entry was vivid fallout from the move to exclude Russian athletes from Rio in the wake of evidence of state-sponsored drug cheating at the 2014 Sochi Games.

Source: Wall Street Journal August 09, 2016 02:49 UTC