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"&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;This article was originally published on&amp;nbsp;Time.com.&lt;/em&gt;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In addition to shattering world records and breaking down barriers, the swimmers at the&amp;nbsp;Rio Olympics&amp;nbsp;have managed another feat of sorts: reigniting international sport\u2019s Cold War. On the self-proclaimed forces of good: swimmers from Western nations who broke unwritten Olympic etiquette by speaking out against competitors they deemed \u201Cdrug cheats.\u201D The villains were swimmers from Russia and China who had been reinstated after serving suspensions for performance-enhancing drugs.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The flames had been fanned before the&amp;nbsp;Games, when an investigation found in July&amp;nbsp;that Russia&amp;nbsp;engaged in a wide-ranging state-sponsored conspiracy&amp;nbsp;to deceive anti-doping officials during the Sochi Olympics. Many athletes and anti-doping officials called for all Russian athletes to be banned from Rio as punishment. Instead, the International Olympic Committee left it up to each global sports federation to make its own call. In all, 278 of the 389 Russian athletes set to compete in Rio were cleared.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;One of them was Russian swimmer Yulia Efimova, who had served a 16-month ban for doping. After Efimova competed in the 100m breaststroke semifinals, she waved a \u201CNo. 1\u201D finger in the air\u2013\u2013mimicking American Lilly King, who did it after an earlier swim in the event. King was&amp;nbsp;not pleased. \u201CYou wave your finger No. 1, and you\u2019ve been caught drug cheating?\u201D King said on NBC after her semifinal. \u201CI\u2019m not a fan.\u201D King then&amp;nbsp;won gold over Efimova&amp;nbsp;the next night, and&amp;nbsp;barely concealed her disgust&amp;nbsp;afterwards. \u201CIt just proves that you can compete clean and still come out on top with all the work you put in,\u201D King said.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Her stand followed that of Australian swimmer Mack Horton, who beat China\u2019s Sun Yang to win gold in the 400m freestyle on Aug. 6 and called Sun, who served a three-month ban for testing positive for a banned stimulant in 2014, a&amp;nbsp;\u201Cdrug cheat.\u201D&amp;nbsp;After the race, Horton said his win was one \u201Cfor the good guys.\u201D\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Their strong words were supported by other swimmers, including&amp;nbsp;Michael Phelps, and applauded by many fans and commentators. But it\u2019s about to become far more difficult for the U.S. to cling to its perch atop the moral high ground.&amp;nbsp;American swimmers&amp;nbsp;and gymnasts have rarely been caught up in cheating scandals, and the current teams in these sports, according the drug testers, are squeaky clean. The same, however, can\u2019t be said for the U.S. in track and field, which is&amp;nbsp;soon to take center stage&amp;nbsp;in Rio.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The recent past isn\u2019t filled with \u201Cgood guys,\u201D as it were: the early 2000s ensnared many of America\u2019s biggest names in the sport, including Marion Jones, a star at the \u201900 Olympics in Sydney, who admitted to using steroids and was stripped of her medals. Tim Montgomery\u2019s 100m world record, set in 2002, was stripped. And&amp;nbsp;the current team in Rio&amp;nbsp;includes athletes who\u2019ve been suspended for doping.&amp;nbsp;Justin Gatlin, America\u2019s fastest man at the 2016 Olympics, tested positive for performance-enhancing drug use in 2006, and served a four-year ban. Tyson Gay, a member of the U.S. 4x100 relay roster in Rio, tested positive for an anabolic steroid in 2013, costing the entire U.S. 4x100 relay team at the London Olympics their silver medals.\r\n\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\r\n\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;King herself said&amp;nbsp;Gatlin and Gay shouldn\u2019t be in Rio. \u201CDo I think people who have been caught doping should be on the team?\u201D King said. \u201CThey shouldn\u2019t. It is unfortunate we have to see that.\u201D\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Russia is far from virtuous here, either. Track\u2019s global governing body banned&amp;nbsp;all but one&amp;nbsp;Russian track athlete from Rio after a report commissioned by the World Anti-Doping Agency found rampant performance-enhancing drug use on the team. And on Saturday that lone holdout,&amp;nbsp;long jumper Darya Klishina, was&amp;nbsp;also suspended.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Even Gatlin\u2014who denies that he\u2019s ever knowingly taken a banned substance, and insists he\u2019s currently clean\u2014realizes he can\u2019t criticize the Russians like the swimmers have. \u201CI guess I don\u2019t have much of a soap box to stand on when it comes to situations like this,\u201D he said during a&amp;nbsp;June interview with TIME, after being asked about the blanket ban on Russia\u2019s Olympic track team.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Americans may stack up medals on the track in Rio, but they\u2019ll have to table their righteousness on that podium.\r\n&lt;/p&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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