What to watch in Olympic sports this weekend
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Emma Weyant: Second-place finisher in Lia Thomas' NCAA championship race won Olympic medal in 2021
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Caitlyn Jenner dismisses criticism of trans athlete stance: I 'had the balls to stand up for' women in sports
11-time All-American swimmer tells 'The Ingraham Angle' she watched Thomas’s competitors cry because of the emotional and psychological turmoil it is taking on them.
Transgender swimmer Lia Thomas advances to women's 200 freestyle final at NCAA swimming championships
ATLANTA — University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas qualified for her second final at the NCAA championships Friday morning after finishing the 200-yard freestyle in 1 minute, 42.09 seconds to secure the second seed for the evening finals.
Head coach Ben Titley out at Swimming Canada after 10 years
Head coach Ben Titley and Swimming Canada have parted ways following a 10-year run of success.
Twitter explodes over trans swimmer Lia Thomas winning national title: 'A slap in the face to women and girls'
Critics are sounding off on the participation of trans female athletes in girls sports following University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas' win in the 500-yard freestyle at the NCAA Championships on Thursday.
Eddie Jones’s inconsistent England stand in way of French grand slam
As Voltaire put it: “Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats”. The great French philosopher might just as well have been referencing Eddie Jones’s England before their final leg of a hitherto unrewarding 2022 Six Nations voyage. Paris is never an easy place to go, let alone for sides whose title hopes have, in effect, already left the harbour on a P&O ferry.
Transgender swimmer's NCAA championship win 'just not right,' competitor's parents say
ATLANTA – The parents of a female swimmer competing against Lia Thomas in the NCAA championship criticized the transgender athlete's win as unfair.