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By David Rieder.<\/em><\/p>\n

Yulia Efimova<\/strong> was out for revenge, looking to turn the tables on Lilly<\/strong> King<\/strong> after King\u00a0beat her for gold in the 100 breast final at the Olympic Games. But it was more than just what happened in the pool that had Efimova irked. King had called out Efimova for her checkered history with banned substances, and King had wagged her finger.<\/p>\n

The rivalry, created out of nowhere the day before the 100 breast final, fueled King. It fried Efimova, who was caught on camera breaking down in tears in the days after the 100 breast final.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe Olympics was the worst thing ever,\u201d Efimova said.<\/p>\n

But this year, as the two finally met again at the World Championships in Budapest, Efimova looked to have the upper hand. She came into the meet with the world\u2019s top time of 1:04.84, faster than King swam on her way to Olympic gold.<\/p>\n

And then, in the 100 breast semi-finals, she almost broke the world record. She touched in 1:04.36, one hundredth slower than the global standard Ruta Meilutyte<\/strong> set in 2013.<\/p>\n

The gauntlet was laid. King appeared confident after her semi-final race\u2014she qualified second for the final in a lifetime-best time of 1:04.53\u2014but when she arrived at the Duna Arena for the final, the pressure hit. The time Efimova had put up in the semi-finals had King sweating.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was actually really freaking out when I got to the pool,\u201d King said. \u201cThat race, it\u2019s always going to be a showdown, and it\u2019s always going to be an exciting one\u2014especially after the time Yulia put up yesterday, which was very, very impressive. It was going to be a dogfight.\u201d<\/p>\n

That it would be. By the time she walked out behind lane five, she was composed, good to go. A pumped-up, highly-competitive race always brings out the best in King.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s what I love about swimming,\u201d King said. \u201cI love having pressure and I love being competitive. That\u2019s why I\u2019m in the sport. I thrive off that. My favorite thing about swimming is walking out of the ready room to a crowd of screaming people.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As she walked out to a packed house at the Duna Arena for the 100 breast final, King was ready to step up.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, for Efimova, things went off the rails immediately. Efimova got off to a terrible start and was instantly a half-bodylength behind Meilutyte on one side of her and King on the other.<\/p>\n

The typically slow-starting Efimova was left scrambling\u00a0to catch up. By the halfway mark, she was in second place, just a half-second behind King. But there wasn\u2019t anything left in the tank, and King was pulling away.<\/p>\n

King touched in 1:04.13. She had not just beaten Meilutyte\u2019s record\u2014she had demolished it. In a scene all too familiar to those who watched the 100 breast final one year earlier in Rio, King smashed the water before paddling away from a thoroughly-beaten Efimova to embrace her exuberant American teammate, Katie<\/strong> Meili<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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With all the pressure on, King had again come through and delivered the best swim of her career, an effort she \u201cabsolutely\u201d knew that she was capable of.<\/p>\n

\u201cI push 33-mids, 33-lows in practice, so I at least had a 34-low on the way home, so I knew that was in the tank,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t be mistaken\u2014this was the most pressure she has ever been under. No, a World Champs final is not an Olympic final, but before she swam in Rio, King was a rookie, the one chasing reigning World Champion Efimova. This time, the target was on her back.<\/p>\n

No, she wasn\u2019t the fastest seed or the fastest split, but she was the defending Olympic gold medalist. That won\u2019t change for another four years, and certainly the favorite status doesn\u2019t disappear after less than 12 months. And still, she delivered.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s amazing,\u201d Meili said. \u201c1:04.1 speaks for itself, and it\u2019s just an honor to share the pool with her. She\u2019s an incredible breaststroker, and it\u2019s amazing to see her get in and go faster every time she races.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou all know what Lilly\u2019s capable of doing,\u201d Katie Ledecky<\/strong> said. \u201cHer confidence is so impressive, and it\u2019s infectious for the whole team. She always delivers. We knew she could pull that out.\u201d<\/p>\n

While King had put up the swim of her life, Efimova had cracked. The pressure was on her, too, perhaps more than ever before. And she faded down the stretch, her second 50 split of 34.71 more than a second slower than she had swum in the semi-finals. And that allowed Meili to sneak in and steal the silver.<\/p>\n

King was pumped for her world record and gold medal, but her grin widened when she saw who had finished second. Meili had posted a time of 1:05.03, making her the sixth-fastest woman in history. Among those she passed on the all-time list: 2008 Olympic gold medalist and Australian legend Leisel<\/strong> Jones<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI knew it was going to be an intense race, a showdown,\u201d Meili said. \u201cI was just hoping to stay in my own lane, do the best I could. I told myself no matter the outcome, I was going to be proud of myself when I touched the wall, and I was just a little extra happy that I got a silver medal.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meili is 26, six years older than King, and the two are nearly opposite personalities\u2014King brash and out-spoken, Meili quiet and, according to King, \u201cliterally the nicest person I\u2019ve ever met.\u201d While King has built up a rivalry with Efimova with her words as much as her swimming, Meili prefers to keep to herself, out of the spotlight.<\/p>\n

But Meili has watched her younger teammate show poise in the biggest moments and has picked up a thing or two herself.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat I don\u2019t have in dramatic flair and showmanship, I learn from her,\u201d Meili said. \u201cI might not be the most confident, and certainly, though she\u2019s almost seven years younger than me, I\u2019m learning from her every time I race her.\u201d<\/p>\n

In some ways, Meili\u2019s performance may be just as notable or perhaps more impressive than King\u2019s. She\u2019s headed to law school at Georgetown this fall, and while she insists she is not retiring, her future in the sport is murky.<\/p>\n

At an age when so few swimmers, particularly females, keep improving, Meili has bucked the odds, and if she doesn\u2019t swim at another World Championships or Olympics, that\u2019s not a bad way to go out.<\/p>\n

But King insured that the spotlight would focus on her and Efimova on night three in Budapest. Really, that was guaranteed as soon as the drama of the Rio Olympic final had concluded.<\/p>\n

\u201cI love it. We get a lot of rivalries in other sports\u2014football, basketball and sports like that. Swimming we see a lot of really nice people,\u201d King said. \u201cThat\u2019s great and all, but that\u2019s not my personality.\u201d<\/p>\n

Even Efimova, at this point, has come to accept and embrace that rivalry\u2014even if she would prefer that King speak to her before the two race each other.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy not? It\u2019s exactly what I need,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s so much more pressure, but it makes it fun and interesting to watch.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But at this point, it seems like a stretch to call King vs. Efimova a \u201crivalry.\u201d To fit that bill, each of the two parties has to win, at least occasionally, and Efimova has never beaten King in the 100 breast in a major championship meet.<\/p>\n

Time after time, King has delivered in the biggest moments, but never quite like she did in Budapest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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