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Tokyo mdash; American backstroke star Ryan Murphy suggested Friday that his races at the Tokyo Olympics were probably not clean, seeming to take aim at Russian swimmers who beat him in two events.Murphy made the comments Friday after taking the silver medal behind Evgeny Rylov in the 200-meter backstroke. Three days ago, he settled for bronze in the 100 back, touching after both Rylov and another Russian, Kliment Kolesnikov. At a news conference with the other medalist stanley cup s, Murphy said he wasn stanley cup t making any allegations and congratulated Rylov. Most Russian athletes were allowed to compete at Tokyo, even though they officially represent the Russian Olympic Committee - not their country - after revelations it launched a massiv stanley cup e state-sponsored program to elude testers ahead of the 2014 Sochi Winter Games. Rylov, who has long been one of the world s top backstrokers, denied being involved in any doping schemes. He said he s always been clean in competition and has been tested. He said he didn t feel like he was the target of Murphy s frustration. From the bottom of my heart I am for clean sport, The Washington Post quotes him as saying through a translator. I ve devoted my entire life to this sport. I don t even know how to react to that. Rylov said Murphy was entitled to his thoughts in light of the scandals, according to the Reuters news agency.The Post says the man who won the bronze in Friday s race, Luke Greenbank of Britain Pjfn Tennessee governor signs bill to cut Nashville council in half
RIO DE JANEIRO - Tianna Bartolettakicked off her countryrsquo whirlwind run of medals on the night. So, by allrights, she should get to name it.Fittingly, the newly-crowned Olympiclong jump champion went with AwesomeHour. America s Rio Olympic medalists 52 photos In a span of about 60 minutesWednesday night, U.S. athletes hauled in a bevy of medals: Bartoletta andBrittney Reese went 1-2 in the long jump, Tori Bowie captured a bronze in the200 airmax and Brianna Rollins, Nia Ali and Kristi Castlin swept the medals in the100-meter hurdles - a feat thatrsquo never been accomplished in that event. A banner evening, for sure. The nationentered the night with 13 medals and left the track with a total of 19 -- fivegold, seven silver, seven bronze.It was an awesome adidas samba hour,Bartoletta said. She started things off by unseatingReese, the defending Olympic champion, stanley cup in the long jump. Moments later, Bowiewon her second medal in Rio by taking bronze in the 200 meters. Not long afterthat, the hurdlers made history. This was the seventh medals sweep by the U.S.track team in the Olympics and the 23rd for U.S. women in the history of theSummer Games.And yes, they realized what theirfellow Americans