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Yulia Efimova Comments on Doping, Michael Phelps' Marijuana, Alcohol Use

Russian swimmer Yulia Efimova has been vilified during the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro after she failed two drug tests prior to the Games. On Thursday, she finally shot back at American Lilly King's comments but also went after American swimming legend Michael Phelps, who has had a checkered past with drug and alcohol abuse, per Jeff Passan of Yahoo Sports:

Of course I’m not for doping, and I’ve never used it on purpose. But I know there have been very many occasions where people do it because they don’t know or because they’re stupid or naïve.