Lia Thomas has been ruining college swimming for women. Thomas was originally on the men’s team but was nothing special, so he decided to identify as a lady and just destroy their chances of winning. Olympic Gold Medalist Michael Phelps was asked to weigh in on the controversy, and even he was questioning how fair it is.
“Phelps’s comments came during an interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour last week when Amanpour asked the swimmer to react to the ongoing debate and Phelps likened it to his experience with doping in the sport, saying he does not think he has competed in a “clean field” in his “entire career.”
“I think this leads back to the organizing committees again,” said Phelps, who won 13 individual gold medals as an Olympic swimmer. “Because it has to be a level playing field. That’s something that we all need. Because that’s what sports are. For me, I don’t know where this is going to go. I don’t know what’s going to happen.”
“I don’t know what it looks like in the future,” he said. “It’s hard. It’s very complicated and this is my sport, this has been my sport my whole entire career, and honestly, the one thing I would love is everybody being able to compete on an even playing field.”
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One of Thomas’s teammates anonymously commented about him being on their team.
“She compares herself to Jackie Robinson. She said she is like the Jackie Robinson of trans sports,” one of Thomas’ teammates told the Washington Examiner last week. “She laughs about it and mocks the situation. Instead of caring or showing that she cares about what she’s doing or what she’s doing to her teammates, she’s not sympathetic or empathetic at all. Lia never addressed our team. She never asked if it was OK. She never asked how we felt. She never tried to explain how she feels. She never has said anything to us as a group. She never addressed anything.”
Phelp’s questioning how fair it is should force officials to rethink allowing confused men to swim on the women’s teams. Because it really isn’t fair to the women that are training their hardest, that have no shot at winning because there is a man on their team.
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