First Gold Of Games: Mack The Knife Horton Says No Respect For ‘Cheat’ Sun Yang

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And the gold to the first athlete of the Games in competition to speak up for clean sport and against those who fall foul of anti-doping rules goes to Australia’s Mack Horton.

The backdrop to these 31st Olympic Games of Blame is one that cannot be ignored. For whatever reason, the IOC, FINA and the combined forces of CAS and all others involkved did nit find a way of keeping the poison out of the pool, with all Russians at first barred now back in.

And so, no surprised to find some extra needle in the 400m freestyle this night in Rio: asked about getting water splashed at him in the warm-up by Sun Yang*, the defending champion from China who is locked out of all funded training centres in Australia, Horton emerged from a smooth 3:43 heat to say of the incident:

“It …

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