{"id":1389017,"date":"2022-03-18T15:10:33","date_gmt":"2022-03-18T19:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1389017"},"modified":"2022-03-18T19:14:42","modified_gmt":"2022-03-18T23:14:42","slug":"multiple-women-beat-lia-thomas-in-womens-200-freestyle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/multiple-women-beat-lia-thomas-in-womens-200-freestyle\/","title":{"rendered":"Multiple Women Beat Lia Thomas In Women\u2019s 200 Freestyle"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmultiple-women-beat-lia-thomas-in-womens-200-freestyle%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1389017&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/03\/Screen-Shot-2022-03-18-at-6.06.47-PM.png?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Some swimmers,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/amid-national-backlash-female-athletes-hesitant-to-weigh-in-on-trans-competitor-lia-thomas\">who indicated to The Daily Wire<\/a> that they took issue with Thomas competing in their races, said that they would consider chatting only after they had completed their NCAA races.<\/p>\n<p>Others directed The Daily Wire to the media relations teams at their universities, such as the University of Tennessee, which declined interview requests until after the NCAA championships.<\/p>\n<p>The transgender swimmer\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/trans-swimmer-lia-thomas-slated-to-win-womens-500-free-by-almost-3-seconds\">presence<\/a>\u00a0is noticeable on the pool deck \u2014 aside from the fact that Thomas stands taller than many of the swimmers, the athlete also clearly has male anatomy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSoul crushing would be not an understatement,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/its-unfair-ncaa-father-says-its-soul-crushing-watching-lia-thomas-obliterate-female-swimmers\">said<\/a> the father of a Virginia swimmer, asked by The Daily Wire how it felt to watch Thomas win over a pool of biological women.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just don\u2019t think it\u2019s fair,\u201d said the\u00a0father, who asked not to be identified in order to preserve his daughter\u2019s anonymity. \u201cThese young ladies have worked too hard to be treated like that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While some onlookers cheered as the transgender athlete\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/biologically-male-swimmer-annihilates-female-competitors-in-500-free\">was announced<\/a>\u00a0the winner on Thursday evening, the stands also resonated with a chorus of boos and yells.<\/p>\n<p>The Virginia dad said that it has been \u201cincredibly obvious\u201d from where he has been sitting in the stands that parents \u201cdon\u2019t appear to be supportive of Lia Thomas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt happened several times yesterday when he finished, when he touched the wall and finished,\u201d the father explained. \u201cNobody clapped, really. When the second place person came in, the place exploded.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One of Thomas\u2019 teammates,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/sports\/penn-swimmer-lia-thomas-integrity-sport-ncaa-championship\">who spoke to Fox News<\/a>\u00a0on the condition of anonymity, said that Thomas\u2019 participation in women\u2019s athletics has \u201ccompletely ruined the integrity of the sport.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not necessarily an achievement in my mind,\u201d the swimmer told Fox. \u201cWomen\u2019s records are separate from men\u2019s records. It\u2019s its own distinct category because no woman is going to be as fast as a man, and here is just completely \u2014 we\u2019re just throwing away the definition of a record to fit into someone else\u2019s agenda of what it should mean to them when in reality it makes no scientific sense to do so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The student added that she finds it \u201cdisappointing to know that the NCAA lacks the courage to do the right thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think if Lia were to break an Olympian\u2019s record, it would cause a lot of damage to the sport and to women, and I think it would cause more people to come out [against the guidelines], people that were afraid to speak before,\u201d the student said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some swimmers,\u00a0who indicated to The Daily Wire that they took issue with Thomas competing in their races, said that they would consider chatting only after they had completed their NCAA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1389017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1389017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1389017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1389017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1389017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}