Penn Quakers swimmer Lia Thomas holds a trophy after finishing first in the 500 free at the NCAA Womens Swimming & Diving Championships at Georgia.Penn Quakers swimmer Lia Thomas holds a trophy after finishing first in the 500 free at the NCAA Womens Swimming & Diving Championships at Georgia.
Thomas beat Virginia’s Emma Weyant by 1.75 seconds with a time of four minutes and 33.24 seconds on Thursday, falling short of Katie Ledecky’s NCAA record time of 4:24.06. Erica Sullivan, a silver medallist in the 1 500 metre event at last year’s Tokyo Olympics, finished third.Last month, USA Swimming unveiled a new policy to allow transgender athletes to swim in elite events by setting out criteria that aims to mitigate any “unfair advantages”.
Thomas competed on Pennsylvania’s men’s team for three years before transitioning and moving to the women’s team, setting multiple programme records. Her eligibility has come under considerable scrutiny, including from several Pennsylvania team mates. “I try to ignore it as much as I can,” Thomas added. “I try to focus on my swimming, what I need to do to get ready for my races. And just try to block out everything else.”
Not a true champion. In sport there's no such thing as transgender. You're either XX or XY, period.
You mean 1st man to win in the women's division ,surely transgender should compete in a transgender division ?
When boys desire girls is okay. When boys desire to be girls I go tilt
And yet they had a problem with Caster Semenya.
Why is a man competing in woman’s sports?
Casper Semenya was denied so Lia could be enabled
'I got an A for the test but i cheated'
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