A FRENCH swimmer has joined Australian gold medallist Mack Horton in slamming Chinese drug cheat Sun Yang, saying the 200m freestyle champion “p***es purple”.

Camille Lacourt, who came fifth in the 100m backstroke final just after Sun’s triumph, said swimming was becoming like athletics “with two or three doped in each final.”

“Sun Yang, he pisses purple,” Lacourt told French radio station RMCsport after his race.

“When I see the 200m podium I want to be sick.

“I prefer to remember the crowd that cheered when we went out.

“I am very sad when I see my sport getting like this.

“I have the impression I am looking at athletics, with two or three doped in each final.

“I hope that FINA (the world governing body) is going to do react and stop this massacre, because it is getting sad.”

Sun served a three-month doping ban in 2014, which the Chinese federation kept secret.

Australian 400m freestyle gold medallist Mack Horton sparked outrage in China when he called Yang a “drug cheat” before defeating him in the 400m final.

“I used the words drug cheat because he tested positive,” Horton said after the race.

“He’s one of the athletes here who has tested positive.”

The Rio swimming contest has become the new centre of the international doping storm unleashed by a report for the World Anti-Doping Agency, which said the Russia government organised the use of banned substances and manipulated doping tests.

Lacourt also took a pot shot at China’s Xu Jiayu who came second in his race, behind American Ryan Murphy.

“I don’t like being beaten by a Chinese,” he said.

The latest comments come in the wake of the greatest Olympian Michael Phelps saying doping in world sport “breaks my heart” and he wished “somebody would do something about it”.