UPenn swimmer comes out as trans / switches to women's team after competing on men's team for 3 years and is dominating NCAA

Good for her, what these women should do is not compete in the races. The problem is that they have nobody speaking for them. What an optic if the gun went off and the only person to jump in the pool is that dude

IOC have said each IF is to make their own rules.

So that is the IOC std.

Ivy League Championships this weekend. Results so far:

500 Free - 1st place in a new pool record of 4:37.32 (PR is 4:34.06, #1 in the NCAA; 2nd place was 4:44.83).

200 Free Relay - Swam a leg of the relay which placed 4th.

Tomorrow, will swim the 200 Free. Has the #1 seed time of 1:41.93. #2 seed is 1:49.44

Saturday, holds the #2 seed in the 100 Free and the #1 seed in the 1650 Free (15:59.71; #2 seed is 16:23.72).

Don't forget that Thomas broke the pool record set previously by Olympian Kate Ziegler and and another trans won the 50 free. You know, because this is all totally fair. 

The whole thing is patently disgraceful. We established women's sports to give women a fair chance to compete in their own athletic events, then based on a laughable ideology that tries to deny facts and biology, they are forced to compete against men who "identify" as women and if anyone protests against this nonsense they are falsely accused of bigotry all in the name of an obvious injustice based on cultish tripe. There is a very unhealthy elitism in our institutions where fringe views from a very narrow ideological spectrum are constantly being rammed through backed by a small but vocal group of zealots who are convinced they are on the side of the angels, what the vast majority of people think be damned. That is what happens when every principle is seen solely through the lens of identity politics.

The editor of Swimming World says "it is clear" Thomas is now holding back when racing to avoid the sort of attention garnered after trouncing women by far more massive margins in earlier events.

With Thomas producing splits of 52.14 and 50.98, it is clear that the Penn swimmer held back during the front half of the race and only shifted into a higher gear down the stretch. Thomas’ best for the season is her 1:41.93 outing from early December and it is highly likely that Thomas is sandbagging her races in order to avoid the additional attention she would garner with faster times.

Thomas... previously competed for three years as a member of the Quakers’ men’s program. Thomas was an average male swimmer before transitioning but is now ranked No. 1 in the NCAA in the 200 freestyle and 500 freestyle among female swimmers.

swimmingworldmagazine.com

Lia Thomas Blasts Huge Closing Split to Win 200 Free in Meet Record at Ivy Champs; Negative Split Suggests Holding Back

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Penn's Lia Thomas blasted a huge closing split on the way to winning the 200-yard freestyle during Friday's Ivy League Championships.

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Ross Tucker of Science of Sport also suggested on Twitter today that Thomas is holding back. Tucker posted a graph showing that toward the end of one of the races Thomas won at the Ivy League Championships, Thomas slowed way down - apparently so the margin of victory would be less dramatic.

I haven't watched footage of the ILC yet myself, but apparently a male sports announcer covering one of the races that Thomas was in remarked that Thomas seemed to be hardly kicking.

Thomas was the #462 ranked NCAA swimmer as a male and is now (by a far margin) the #1 ranked "female" swimmer.

Yup, there hasn't been such a remarkable improvement in national rankings since 2019 when another US college senior, CeCe Telfer, went from 390th in the men's NCAA Division II 400 hurdles to Number 1 - and National Champion - in the women's.

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When I wrack my "silly lady brain" trying to figure out what athletes like Thomas and Telfer have going for them that other women don't, for some reason the title of the first album by the Sex Pistols' keeps coming to mind.

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Thomas was on Penn's men's swim team. He could get testosterone suppression forever and it won't do a thing. It is a joke how we all have to pretend that 1+1=3 for this issue.

I should have highlighted this part from the Swimming World article I posted a while ago. I made a few slight edits for grammar and accuracy:

Make it a pair of [women's] Ivy League championships for Lia Thomas.

The University of Pennsylvania senior captured top honors in the 200-yard freestyle on Friday night, racing to a winning time of 1:43.12 at Blodgett Pool.

In additionto setting a new women's pool record with this performance,Thomas set a meet record by slicing .66 of the previous standard. The effort complemented the title Thomas collected in the [women's] 500 freestyle a night earlier.

https://twitter.com/PennSwimDive/status/1494480651369734149/photo/1

This is ridiculous. To put this in perspective, I'm confident I could have been a D1 Womens national champion in T&F, swimming and Wrestling if I wanted to go the Lia Thomas route.

Any decent male athlete could probably be competitive in multiple womens sports like basketball, soccer, volleyball and softball.

The thing is, anyone with common sense can easily see that natural born males that identify as women have an obvious unfair advantage when competing against natural born women in most sports. It is right in front of our eyes, yet the fringe progressives keep pushing this and swearing that the science does not show any notable advantage and anyone who says different is a bigot and deserves to have their opportunities taken away.

I see everything the progressives push now through this lens. They are so obviously wrong about this. When they tell me that their science shows that the covid vaccine is safe, or that Build Back Better won't result in me being taxed to death, I don't believe them. This single issue, where they are clearly wrong and either can't see it or refuse to admit it, destroys their credibility on everything else for me. This is so profoundly unfair, and I feel terrible for the women who trained so hard for these races only to have to swim against a physical male that they have no chance against. That just sucks.

right! Why think about anything when your simple 'progressives are always wrong' filter is so so much easier! Social security, child labor laws, unions, the 40 hour workweek, unemployment insurance, medicare, anti-monopoly laws...toss it all because of Lia. Progressives have to be wrong on those if they are wrong on this. Spot on and sharp thinking.

Here are the 50-yard splits from the medalists in the women’s 500-yard freestyle final at the Ivy League champs. A 15-year old pool record was broken. Pacing strategy 101: Which of these patterns suggests a significant reserve capacity and likely underperformance?

If you said, gold, you’d be right. In events lasting longer than about 3 min, negative pacing strategies and the characteristic endspurt (where we speed up at the end) are suggestive of someone who has maintained a reserve, producing a controlled effort below max for the race

A larger endspurt and a greater negative split reveal that a greater reserve was held. In effect, it speaks to how much “was in the tank" at the end. It’s produced when we tap into a reserve. Typically, max or optimal performances are achieved with slight negative or even splits

Indeed, the progression of world records in distance events is the result of “flattening” the curve. It used to be they started fast, slowed down, then sped up a bit (like the bronze medalist here). But optimal performances require flat lines. I’d say sliver is very close to this

But gold is an anomaly. This is a pattern that suggests a very comfortable effort, well managed and controlled, with significant capacity to go faster, realised in the final 50 yards only. If was a coach of that athlete, I’d be excited at the potential time if pacing was optimal.

And he reposts an screenshot from swimmingworld:
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"Thomas' closing 50 appears to be the fastest in history [...] it is highly likely that Thomas is sandbagging her [sic] races in order to avoid the additional attention she [sic] would garner with faster times."

Straight out of the Caster Semenya playbook.