RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A wagging finger. A stunning swim.
And with that, a win for clean athletes everywhere in an Olympics where no one is sure the playing field is really level.
Yes, Lilly King is quite a swimmer. The gold medal hanging around her neck Monday night was evidence enough of that.
But the brash 19-year-old from Indiana was much more than that on an electric night at the Olympic pool, where she held off Russian Yulia Efimova in a 100-meter breaststroke showdown that was loaded with overtones of a new doping Cold War.