He makes me sick: French swimmer Camille Lacourt casts doubt on China's Olympic Games champion Sun Yang
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French swimmer Camille Lacourt waded into the Olympic doping controversy on Monday casting doubt on new 200m freestyle champion Sun Yang of China.
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“Sun Yang, he pisses purple,” Lacourt said.
“When I see the 200m podium I want to be sick. I prefer to remember the crowd that cheered when we went out,” added Lacourt who came second in the 2015 world championships in the 100m backstroke.
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“I am very sad when I see my sport getting like this. I have the impression I am looking at athletics, with two or three doped in each final.
“I hope that FINA [the world governing body] is going to do react and stop this massacre, because it is getting sad.”
Lacourt also took a pot shot at China’s Xu Jiayu who came second in his race, behind American Ryan Murphy.
“I don’t like being beaten by a Chinese,” he said.