“We think his inappropriate words greatly hurt the feelings between Chinese and Australian swimmers," he said, according to China's party-controlled news agency, Xinhua. "On the Olympics' competition stage, every athlete deserves to be respected and there's no need to use these cheap tricks to affect each other," the Chinese swimmer said, according to state media reports. "I used the word 'drug cheat' because he tested positive," the Aussie swimmer told reporters after the race he won. Instead, a squabble between Olympic swimmers has a whole lot of people in China saying a whole lot of other, not-so-podium-worthy things. Horton and his team stood by the comment, noting that Sun tested positive for a banned substance in 2014 and was banned by China's anti-doping agency for three months.

Source: Washington Post August 08, 2016 10:18 UTC