Russian swimmer Yulia Efimova on 100m breaststroke start list

A smattering of boos greeted Efimova after she won her preliminary heat Sunday.

Efimova is also expected to swim the 200 breaststroke and presumably the 4×100 medley relay.

Meldonium was added to the World Anti-Doping Agency’s list of banned substances from January 1, but some positive tests were later overturned after WADA said there was a lack of clear scientific evidence about how long it takes for the drug to be excreted from the body.

Efimova’s positive test for meldonium was placed on hold while world anti-doping officials conduct further studies on the drug. All ahtletes with a hstory of doping or those who were named in the WADA investigation were banned from the Olympics this year, but as part of the International Olympic Committee’s decision not to put a blanket ban on Russian athletes, athletes who have tested clean will be permitted to participate.

Now, it looks like they’ll all be competing in Rio de Janeiro, though world swimming body FINA has not fully explained why.

Instead, the swimmers are quietly being added to the start lists. That’s what happened Saturday, after the initial list for the women’s 100 butterfly didn’t include Natalia Lovtcova.

“Basically, what happened this morning was that I finished and then I waved my finger a little bit, because that’s kind of how I am”, King said after her win, according to USA Today.

Canadian swimmer Ryan Cochrane also expressed unhappiness at the decision. “Once the games are over, that’s something we’ll all look back on and (wish) was handled better throughout the quadrennial, not just before the Olympics”.

Efimova, the world champion at the distance, clocked one minute 5.72 seconds in the semi-finals, two-hundredths of a second behind American Lilly King. King made that clear in a finger-waving display worthy of Dikembe Mutombo as she disparaged the Russian for doping. “I’m just not a fan”, King told reporters who asked about the gesture, reports CBS News.

The report from WADA’s Commission stated in particular that the commission’s investigation registered a total of 643 cases of Disappearing Positive Test Results in Russian Federation between 2012 and 2015 involving athletes from 30 sports.

Horton celebrated his victory without even acknowledging Sun in the lane next to him. ‘Hopefully, people that are cheating now know that they’re going to get caught.

“I don’t think we need to care too much about what the Australian says”, Sun said through a translator.

Coventry struggles with the knowledge that sometimes cheating athletes do get a precious moment on the world stage, receiving Olympic medals in the limelight only to get caught later.