{"id":1394273,"date":"2022-03-22T13:46:44","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T17:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1394273"},"modified":"2022-03-22T13:46:47","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T17:46:47","slug":"florida-governor-ron-desantis-declares-emma-weyant-real-winner-over-trans-swimmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/florida-governor-ron-desantis-declares-emma-weyant-real-winner-over-trans-swimmer\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Governor Ron DeSantis Declares Emma Weyant &#039;Real Winner&#039; over Trans Swimmer"},"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\">24<\/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%2Fflorida-governor-ron-desantis-declares-emma-weyant-real-winner-over-trans-swimmer%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=1394273&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><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Florida\u2019s Republican Governor Ron DeSantis has proclaimed Olympic silver medalist and Florida native Emma Weyant to be the true winner of the NCAA 500-yard freestyle championship despite being beaten by transgender swimmer Lia Thomas last week.<\/p>\n<p>Weyant, who came in second during the March 17 competition at the NCAA championships held at Georgia Tech\u2019s McAuley Aquatic Center, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfla.com\/news\/gov-desantis-declares-sarasota-swimmer-champ-over-transgender-athlete\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">received<\/a> hearty congratulations from Gov. DeSantis during a Tuesday press conference WFLA reported.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cShe earned that. We need to honor that appropriately,\u201d DeSantis told the media.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe NCAA is basically takings efforts to destroy women\u2019s athletics,\u201d DeSantis added. \u201cThey\u2019re trying to undermine the integrity of the competition. They\u2019re crowning somebody else the women\u2019s champion, and we think that\u2019s wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Florida is one of a handful of states that have passed laws meant to protect women\u2019s sports and barring men who \u201cidentify\u201d as women from competing against natural-born females.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWe thought it was very important that girls and young women athletes in the state of Florida had the ability to work hard, to realize their dreams and to compete fairly,\u201d the gov. said of Florida\u2019s law. \u201cWhether it\u2019s in swimming, it\u2019s in track and field, you name it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Weyant earned a time of 4:34.99 to Thomas\u2019 4:33.24 to come in second in the 500 freestyle last week.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Lia Thomas just took first place at the 2022 NCAA Division 1 Women&#8217;s Swimming &#038; Diving Championships in the 500 freestyle. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SaveWomensSports?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SaveWomensSports<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UWvDQMYHRJ\">pic.twitter.com\/UWvDQMYHRJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Colin Wright (@SwipeWright) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SwipeWright\/status\/1504586948400369671?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 17, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Despite the NCAA\u2019s claim that Lia Thomas was the winner, though, Weyant became celebrated on social media as the real winner of the event, with many social media users <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tech\/2022\/03\/18\/i-identify-her-as-first-social-media-users-congratulate-emma-weyant-for-winning-first-instead-lia-thomas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">saying<\/a> that they \u201cidentify\u201d Weyant as the winner.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Congrats to Virginia freshman Emma Weyant, the woman who would have won tonight\u2019s NCAA title in the 500 meter if women\u2019s sports were still sane. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KYYKbIr8nt\">https:\/\/t.co\/KYYKbIr8nt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ClayTravis\/status\/1504661644575592449?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 18, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Round of applause for Emma Weyant, the UVA swimmer who placed second in the 500y freestyle tonight, behind Lia Thomas. Second is the new first. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/savewomenssports?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#savewomenssports<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NtHookm3qQ\">pic.twitter.com\/NtHookm3qQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Angela Morabito (@AngelaLMorabito) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AngelaLMorabito\/status\/1504617589221244929?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 18, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Emma is the 1st place winner in the women\u2019s swimming competition. NCAA should ashamed of themselves as they are destroying women\u2019s sports. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Dxlo3VHCng\">https:\/\/t.co\/Dxlo3VHCng<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mercedes Schlapp (@mercedesschlapp) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mercedesschlapp\/status\/1504911199388983298?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 18, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><i>Follow Warner Todd Huston on Facebook at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Warner.Todd.Huston\">facebook.com\/Warner.Todd.Huston<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida\u2019s Republican Governor Ron DeSantis has proclaimed Olympic silver medalist and Florida native Emma Weyant to be the true winner of the NCAA 500-yard freestyle championship despite being beaten by<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"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-1394273","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\/1394273","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\/180"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1394273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394273\/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=1394273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1394273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1394273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}