Lilly King doesn’t know how she’ll react when she sees Yulia Efimova for the first time since the Rio Olympics next week.
King does know this: There is nothing she wants to say to her Russian rival at the world championships in Budapest.
“I’ll let my swimming do the talking,” King said in a phone interview from the U.S. swim team’s training camp in Croatia on Tuesday. “It’s obviously going to be very awkward, that first encounter, but it’s going to happen. I’m ready for it.”
King and Efimova, after King won their memorable Rio Olympic 100m breast duel, should be in close proximity throughout next week.