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) - Another day, another controversy at the world swimming championships, with American Lilly King's disqualification from the women's 200 metres breaststroke on Thursday proving the latest headache for governing body FINA.
The championships have been marred by podium protests over the presence of China's Sun Yang, who served a doping sanction in 2014 and was cleared to compete at the worlds despite another doping case pending at the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
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