American swimmers in action at the World Championships in Singapore have responded with frustration at criticism of the squad by retired greats Ryan Lochte and Michael Phelps.
Lochte, whose 200m individual medley record was shattered by French swimmer Leon Marchand on Wednesday, posted an image of a funeral on Friday with a gravestone reading “In loving memory of United States Swimming,” with a superimposed engraving of “They set the bar high - until they stopped reaching for it”.
