Posted on 08/08/2016 11:15:29 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
Lilly King put her money where her mouth is on Monday night, romping to victory in the 100m breaststroke final after she called her closest Russian rival a drugs cheat - and took another shot at her minutes after securing gold.
Yulia Efimova, who was caught in a doping scandal, was booed when her name was announced in the women's 100m breaststroke final.
King started strongly and maintained the lead — with Efimova trailing right behind her.
'We can still compete clean and do well in the Olympic games — and that's how it should be,' said King after finishing first.
King said she hoped her win 'made a statement' about playing fair.
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GO USA!
Full Title: 'We can still compete clean!': Finger-wagging USA swimming sensation Lilly King calls out her drug cheat Russian rival after beating her to gold in 100m breast stroke
My daughter was an elite swimmer. When she first felt her first sting of trash talk in the pool - this from her own team mates mind you - she was upset.
My advice- keep your gob shut and let your swimming do the talking and that will take care of it. And it did.
There should be a penalty to the whole team when even one athlete is caught doping. That penalty should be disqualification for the entire team and losing all medals. Repeat offenses should carry a banishment to the next Olympics.
Doping would fade into history.
I agree. Let the issues be settled away from the event. This trash talking (true or not) can't lead anywhere good.
Never let your mouth write a check that your ass can’t cover.
In this case she covered the check.
Just imagine if she couldn’t...
My grandkids swim also and I find it obnoxious when young girls write “Eat my bubbles” on their backs.
For the IOC. It’s all about the money. Follow the money and you’ll see who gets to use drugs and still compete.
I grew up swimming competitively. When it was my kids’ turn, I went to the meets and got caught up in the excitement all over again. My son was swimming the 100IM and he and his two team mates blew the fellas on the other team out of the water. As they each cleared their final turns, I started chanting, “SWEEP! SWEEP! SWEEP!!”
After a dozen chants of “SWEEP!” I glanced around and everybody was looking at me, some mad, some in shock.
I was admonished by a couple of team moms... “We don’t do that here. It’s belittling the opponents and it’s rude!”
Wait... huh?
Afterward, my kids, well aware of the idiocy, rolled their eyes and laughed, “Awww, Dad got in trouuuuble...”
“when young girls write “Eat my bubbles” on their backs”
Sounds like the parents are the problem there.
Of all the little league, girls softball and Teeball I helped coach, the teeballer parents were the worst by far. Everybody thinks their kid is gonna be the next major league star in the making. Got so bad one year all the coaches got together and voted to not keep score for the rest of the season. Didn’t matter though, the parents just did it in the stands. God bless ‘em. :)
My kids swim in summer league, and I don’t like the “Eat my bubbles,” either. (I don’t like any of the scribbling on themselves, in fact.) However, that kind of thing is pretty much a universal custom in athletics, so as long as their behavior is considerate, I figure this is just an environment where my standards don’t apply.
When my oldest boy was on the team, we’d do wolf howls whenever he got up to swim, a private joke based on “Werewolves of London.” That would always confuse the other team!
Truth. There was no way, from the outset of the finding about Russian athletes doping, that the IOC would’ve banned the Russians from the Olympics. No possible way.
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