The doping accusations against Russia by two swimmers at the Olympics

On the night between Thursday and Friday at the Tokyo Olympics the final of the 200 meters backstroke was held. It was won by the Russian Yevgeny Rylov, who on Tuesday also won the gold medal in the 100 meters. But the second victory of the Russian did not go down to the other two athletes who finished on the podium, the American Ryan Murphy and the British Luke Greenbank. After the match Murphy answered a question about Russia’s presence in the Olympics by saying: “I have at least fifteen thoughts in my head, thirteen of which can get me into trouble. I try not to get too involved, but it is really tiring for me to go on all year knowing that my race is probably not clean ».

Third place winner, Greenbank, responded shortly after saying more or less the same things as Murphy: “It is frustrating to know that there is a state-sponsored doping program underway and that nothing is being done to address it.” Murphy explained that his comments were not directed directly to Rylov, who was never involved in the scandals, but in the presence of Russian athletes in Tokyo, who in swimming so far have won five medals, two of them gold.

Rylov responded to the comments by saying, “Ryan has every right to think and say what he wants to say. I don’t want to live in the past ».