Targeted criticism of Australian Olympic swim team wrong and unfair: deputy chef de mission

The targeted besmirching of Australia's Olympic swim team is baseless and unfair, Rio deputy chef de mission Matt Favier has declared in yet another recrimination from a misfire Games.

Tabling a position apparently at odds with opinions formed by his superior in Brazil, team boss Kitty Chiller, Australian Institute of Sport director Favier has described swimmers "as integrated as any other athlete" in Brazil.