Poison in the pool: Olympic swimmers hit out as US antidoping law fuels tensions

Caeleb Dressel said: ‘I don’t think they have given us enough evidence to support how this case was handled.’ Photograph: Al Bello/Getty Images

The doping storm that threatens to dominate these Olympics has intensified after one of the US team’s biggest stars said he had no confidence in how a case involving 23 Chinese swimmers was handled.

Caeleb Dressel, the seven-time Olympic gold medallist, gave a devastatingly blunt three-word answer when asked if he had faith in the authorities. “No, not really.”