Lilly King won’t leave Rio with as many gold medals as Michael Phelps or Katie Ledecky, but she still just became the favorite swimmer not only for many Americans, but also for people all over the world who’ve had enough of drug cheats in sports.
And King’s bandwagon would be crammed with new fans even if she hadn’t won the 100-meter breaststroke Monday at the Olympics.
King brought new meaning to “zero tolerance” when she got into a finger-wagging duel with Yulia Efimova, branding her Russian rival a “drug cheat.”
That should be a learning moment for all the spineless folks at the International Olympic Committee, the ones who have been talking zero tolerance for years but who didn’t have the guts to back it up with a blanket ban on Russia at these Olympics.