Sporting News · Aug 9, 2016
Lilly King issues another proclamation as Olympic swimming's clean queen
Lilly King, front, and Yulia Efimova (Getty Images) Lilly King made her point.
She made it soaking wet, wordlessly, in just a little more than a minute. She won the women’s 100-meter breaststroke at the 2016 Olympic Games in an Olympic record time of 1:04.93.
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And then she repeated her position with a few short words, still a bit damp but every bit as emphatic.
“I hope I did,” King said. “You know: that we can still compete clean and do well at the Olympic Games. And that’s how it should be.”