Russian Yulia Efimova, who won two Olympic silver medals this month after being cleared to compete in Rio following a doping ban, has compared swimming in the Games to being at war. This was awful and it was not like being at an Olympics, which usually unites people. This was not a competition, but a war — a cold war," Efimova told a news conference on Wednesday. "The fact that my doping tests were taken abroad really helped me to compete in the Olympics," Efimova said. Of the 387 Russian sportsmen and women who were named in the preliminary squad, only 271 were able to compete in Rio.

Source: CBC News August 24, 2016 16:41 UTC