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Rio Olympics 2016: Russia’s Yulia Efimova beaten to gold by Lilly King of USA
- Updated: August 9, 2016
Efimova was cleared to compete at Rio after an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for SportOlympic Games on the BBCHosts: Rio de Janeiro Dates: 5-21 August Rio time: BST -4Coverage: Watch on BBC One, BBC Two, BBC Four, Red Button and up to 24 HD video streams on mobile, desktop, connected TVs and app, plus follow on Radio 5 live and via live text commentary.
Controversial Russian swimmer Yulia Efimova was beaten to Olympic gold by Lilly King of the USA in the women’s 100m breaststroke on Tuesday.
Efimova, 24, was allowed to compete at Rio after successfully appealing against a doping suspension.
She arrived to boos before losing to King, who swam an Olympic record of one minute 4.93 seconds.
Efimova was banned for 16 months in 2013 after traces of an anabolic steroid were found in her system.
King, left, beat Efimova by 0.57s
The International Olympic Committee had ruled any Russian athlete who had been sanctioned for doping would be banned from competing in Rio, but Efimova appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas).
Earlier this year she was given a provisional ban after testing positive for meldonium, but the International Swimming Federation lifted the suspension after …
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