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Agence France-Presse

American Lilly King vanquished drugs-tainted Russian Yulia Efimova to win 100m breaststroke gold on Monday (Rio time) in a race emblematic of the doping cloud shadowing the Rio Olympics.
King, a 19-year-old first-time Olympian, had made it clear she didn’t think Efimova belonged in the pool, and plenty agreed as the 24-year-old world champion was showered with boos as she took the blocks.
King led at the turn and repelled a late Efimova charge to win in an Olympic record of one minute, 04.93 seconds, with the Russian second in 1:05.50. American Katie Miele was third in 1:05.69.
“I think it just proved that you can compete clean and still come out on top,” King said, adding that she had no regrets about her comments about Efimova.
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“I’m actually glad I made a statement, and I ended up coming out on top in the race,” she said.
While King and Miele celebrated joyously together in the water, Efimova – who is also entered in the 200m breaststroke in Rio – hung on her lane rope before departing the pool deck.
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It was a contrast to the celebrations of China’s Sun Yang, another swimmer targeted by his peers for past drugs transgressions who shook off controversy to win the 200m freestyle gold.
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Sun took the blocks to cheers from Chinese teammates and supporters in the stands, one group of them seated behind a section of Aussies whose 400m free gold medallist Mack Horton this week branded Sun a drugs cheat – a reference to his three-month suspension in 2014 for a positive test for a banned stimulant.
Efimova’s drugs history is murkier than Sun’s. She served a 16-month ban for DHEA before returning to win the 100m world title last year.
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Since testing positive for meldonium this year she has been banned and reinstated twice in a convoluted case that saw her allowed into the Rio Games at the last minute along with six other Russian swimmers who had either tested positive in the past or been named in the damning report on state-sponsored doping in Russia.
Hungary’s Katinka Hosszu claimed her second gold in as many events with a storming victory in the 100m backstroke. The “Iron Lady” was sixth at the turn with world champion Emily Seebohm leading but stormed home to win in 58.45 seconds.
American Kathleen Baker was second in 58.75, just one one-hundredth of a second in front of China’s Fu Yuanhui and Canadian Kylie Masse, who shared bronze in 58.76.
Seebohm, meanwhile, not only was unable to improve on the silver medal she earned in London but faded to seventh in 59.19.
Little more than an hour later Hosszu was back in action in the 200m individual medley semi-finals, where she’s seeking to complete the medley double after winning the 400m IM in a world record on Saturday.
Ryan Murphy extended America’s run of dominance in the men’s 100m backstroke, coming from fourth at the turn to win in an Olympic record of 51.97.
It’s the sixth straight Olympic gold in the event for the USA.
China’s XuJiyau was second in 52.31 and American David Plummer captured bronze in 52.40.
Le Clos also pulled double duty, following up his freestyle silver by booking his place in the 200m butterfly final, where he’ll defend the title he won in London ahead of superstar Michael Phelps.
Phelps made a storming start to his semi-final, leading at every turn only to be overtaken by Hungarian Tamas Kenderesi in the final 30 meters. Kenderesi topped the qualifying times in 1:53.96 while Phelps was second-fastest in 1:54.12 followed by Hungarian Laszlo Cseh and le Clos.


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Glorious King reigns in Rio after ‘statement’ breaststroke win over drug-tainted Yulia Efimova

Lilly King of the United States waves to the crowd after winning the gold medal in the 100 metre breaststroke, beating Russia’s drug-tainted Yuia Efimova. Photo: TNS

Lilly King (USA) wins gold in the 100m breaststroke final during the Rio Olympic Games on Monday in Rio De Janeiro MUST CREDIT: Photo by Jonathan Newton, The Washington Post

TOPSHOT - USA's Lilly King (R) celebrates with USA's Katie Meili after she broke the Olympic record to win the Women's 100m Breaststroke Final during the swimming event at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at the Olympic Aquatics Stadium in Rio de Janeiro on August 8, 2016. / AFP PHOTO / Martin BUREAU

Lilly King of the United States looks up to see she had won the gold medal in the 100-meter breaststroke, beating Russia's Yuia Efimova (back) on Monday, Aug. 8, 2016 at the 2016 Summer Olympic Games. (Brian Peterson/Minneapolis Star Tribune/TNS)

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American Lilly King vanquishes Russian to win 100 metre breaststroke gold in a race emblematic of the doping cloud shadowing the Rio Olympics


Glorious King reigns in Rio after ‘statement’ breaststroke win over drug-tainted Yulia Efimova

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American Lilly King vanquishes Russian to win 100 metre breaststroke gold in a race emblematic of the doping cloud shadowing the Rio Olympics