{"id":1394121,"date":"2022-03-22T13:15:36","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T17:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1394121"},"modified":"2022-03-22T13:15:46","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T17:15:46","slug":"desantis-to-sign-proclamation-declaring-florida-swimmer-winner-of-race-over-trans-athlete-lia-thomas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-to-sign-proclamation-declaring-florida-swimmer-winner-of-race-over-trans-athlete-lia-thomas\/","title":{"rendered":"DeSantis To Sign Proclamation Declaring Florida Swimmer Winner Of Race Over Trans Athlete Lia Thomas"},"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\">30<\/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%2Fdesantis-to-sign-proclamation-declaring-florida-swimmer-winner-of-race-over-trans-athlete-lia-thomas%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=1394121&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\/RD-scaled.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis said during a press conference on Tuesday that he will sign an official proclamation declaring Sarasota-native and Olympic silver medalist Emma Weyant the winner of last week\u2019s 500-yard freestyle event in the Women\u2019s Swimming and Diving Championships after Weyant finished second place behind transgender athlete Lia Thomas.<\/p>\n<p>Weyant, who is a freshman at the University of Virginia, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/sports\/emma-weyant-olympic-medalist-lia-thomas-ncaa-championships\">clocked<\/a> a time of 4:34.99 last Thursday, falling behind Thomas during the final stretch of the 500-yard event.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you look at what the NCAA has done by allowing basically men to compete in women\u2019s athletics, in this case, the swimming, you had the number one woman who finished was from Sarasota and then Weyant, she won the silver medal, she\u2019s been an absolute superstar her whole career,\u201d DeSantis said. \u201cShe trains, I mean, to compete at that level is very, very difficult. And you don\u2019t just roll out of bed and do it. That takes grit, that takes determination, and she\u2019s been an absolute superstar and she had the fastest time of any woman in college athletics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow, the NCAA is basically taking efforts to destroy women\u2019s athletics,\u201d he continued. \u201cThey\u2019re trying to undermine the integrity of the competition, and they\u2019re crowning somebody else the woman\u2019s champion and we think that\u2019s wrong. And so in Florida, I\u2019m going to be [inaudible] because this is this is a Floridian who I think deserves to be recognized, you know, we\u2019re going to be doing a proclamation saying that Emma is the best female swimmer in the 500 meter freestyle, because she earned that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd we need to stop allowing organizations like the NCAA to perpetuate frauds on the public and that\u2019s exactly what they\u2019re doing. They are putting ideology ahead of opportunity for women athletes,\u201d the governor concluded. \u201cAnd I think that there\u2019s just some people that are afraid to speak out and say what they\u2019re doing. But that is what they\u2019re doing. And so in Florida, we\u2019re going to be very clear, when they try to do things like that, when they try to undermine the integrity of competition, when they try to counteract the ability of women to realize their dreams, we are going to speak out about that. And so we\u2019ll be issuing that proclamation just because, you know, as somebody that was, was such a great athlete in Florida has now moved on to the University of Virginia, you know, we need to honor that appropriately. And if the NCAA was willing to actually ensure the integrity of women\u2019s competition, she would have been crowned national champion.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">JUST NOW: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GovRonDeSantis?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@GovRonDeSantis<\/a> says he will sign a &#8220;proclamation&#8221; naming <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UVA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@UVA<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/USASwimming?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@USASwimming<\/a> Olympian <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/emmaweyant?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@emmaweyant<\/a> the &#8220;best female swimmer&#8221; of the women&#8217;s 500-yard freestyle.<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis said the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NCAA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NCAA<\/a> is &#8220;perpetuating fraud&#8221; &#038; &#8220;trying to undermine the integrity of the competition&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wt6I058ILp\">pic.twitter.com\/wt6I058ILp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Evan Donovan (@EvanDonovan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EvanDonovan\/status\/1506295784043696131?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 22, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em><strong>Related:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest growing conservative media companies for breaking news, investigative reporting, sports, podcasts, in-depth analysis, books, and entertainment for a reason: because we believe in what we do. 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