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The best rivalry in sports is being ignored by almost everybody.
It’s happening in a non-Olympic year in a pool in Budapest, which might explain the difficulty with keeping up.
But in the dog days of summer, what could be better than Russia’s twice-banned drug cheat Yulia Efimova wagging her finger (again!) to mock her sport and her competitors, while the United States’ Lilly King stares at the ridiculous sideshow, dives into the pool and authoritatively beats her?
Isn’t it nice to know there’s somebody in this country who is willing to take on the Russians?