Ryan Murphy, one of the captains of the United States swimming team in Tokyo, called into question the antidoping measures of the 2020 Summer Olympic Games in a press conference after the men’s 200 backstroke final. Murphy, the 2016 Olympic champion in the 100 back and 200 back, was beaten in the 200 back by
Evgeny Rylov and in the 100 back by Rylov and
Kliment Kolesnikov, both of whom represent the Russian Olympic Committee.
Laine Higgins, a sports reporter with the Wall Street Journal, wrote that she asked Murphy if he had any doping concerns. Murphy’s response was explosive.
“I’ve got about 15 thoughts. Thirteen of them would get me into a lot of trouble. It is what it is. I try not to get caught up in that. It is a huge mental drain on me to go throughout the year that I’m swimming in a race that’s probably not clean, and that is what it is. The people that know a lot more about the situation made the decision they did. It frustrates me but I have to swim the fi
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Sorry, Simone Biles, The Olympics Isn’t About You, It’s About Winning For America
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I always thought the Olympics was supposed to be about competing, and winning, for your country. As an American, the Olympic Games always felt like a unique opportunity to utterly defeat other countries and prove, again and again, that the USA is the greatest country on earth, and other countries suck.
Apparently, things have changed. For some U.S. athletes, the Olympics has become all about them.
Simone Biles, the best gymnast in the world and the erstwhile star of Team USA at the Tokyo Olympics, abruptly quit on Tuesday after botching a vault. Her unexpected withdrawal from the women’s team gymnastics final left her teammates in the lurch. Some of them had not planned to compete Tuesday, and they ended up losing the gold to Russia Russia!