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Nope. The Russian did it in the first semifinal heat. King wagged her finger after that ala Mutumbo.
King did it before all that.
After Efimova, the crowd villain at the Olympic Aquatics Stadium after being controversially restored to the Games on Saturday following a previous ban, posted 1:05.72 in the first semifinal, she appeared to mock King by waggling her index finger — King had first performed the move earlier in the day.
King, 19, refused to back down. The American youngster was waiting in the ready room ahead of her swim in the second semifinal, made eye contact with Efimova, then sparred back with a finger shake and a fierce glare of her own.
“Basically, what happened this morning was that I finished and then I waved my finger a little bit, because that’s kind of how I am,” King said. “Then tonight just now Yulia got done with her swim and I am watching in the ready room — and there she is there shaking her finger. So then I got done and I beat her time so I waved my finger again. People probably think I am serving it up a little bit but that is just how I am.
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