RIO DE JANIERO – The greatest night of Lilly King’s life was not going to be complete until someone asked her about Justin Gatlin.
It was inevitable. Here she was, the 19-year-old American breaststroker who so publicly called out Russia’s twice-suspended Yulia Efimova, now boldly continuing the anti-doping conversation she had started the day before, this time with an Olympic gold medal hanging around her neck.
Gatlin, the U.S. sprinter who won the 2004 Olympic gold medal in the men’s 100 meters, also has been suspended twice for taking performance-enhancing drugs, and he is competing later on in the Rio Olympic Games.