When Australian swim coach Michael Palfrey called out “go Korea” at the end of an extracurricular poolside interview on Tuesday, he might have thought he was waving. He wasn’t; he was drowning. Swimming Australia has no choice now but to pull him out of the pool and cut him loose.

It’s perverse that Palfrey has not already been moved on, if for no other reason than to smooth the waters inside the Australian camp. It’s unfathomable that he had the effrontery still to be on the pool deck with the Australians on Wednesday. It’s weird that he is sharing........

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