Swimming - 18th FINA World Swimming Championships - Women's 200m Breaststroke Heats - Nambu University Municipal Aquatics Center, Gwangju, South Korea - July 25, 2019. Lilly King of the U.S. competes. REUTERS/Antonio Bronic
GWANGJU, South Korea (Reuters) - USA Swimming have filed an appeal following the disqualification of Lilly King from the women's 200 metres breaststroke heats on Thursday at the world championships in Gwangju.
King, the Olympic and world 100 champion, came home first in her heat but after looking up at the scoreboard she was stunned to see she had been disqualified.
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