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Penn swimmer alleges Lia Thomas colluded with fellow transgender athlete to lose
New York Post ^ | January 21, 2022 | Yaron Steinbuch

Posted on 01/21/2022 6:18:59 AM PST by karpov

A biological female member of the University of Pennsylvania women’s swimming team said she believes her transgender teammate Lia Thomas colluded with a Yale transgender athlete so she could lose to prove a point, according to a report.

Yalie Iszac Henig, who is transitioning from female to male, beat Thomas in both the women’s 100- and 400-yard freestyle races during an Ivy League swim meet on Jan. 8.

Henig was reportedly able to compete on the women’s team because she had yet to start testosterone treatment.

Thomas, who has been shattering women’s team records, has become a lightning rod as her story has gained national attention in recent months. She previously competed as a man for three seasons at UPenn.

Her biological female teammate told OutKick on condition of anonymity that she believes Thomas and Henig hatched a plan during the recent meet.

“Looking at [Lia’s] time, I don’t think she was trying,” she told the outlet. “I know they’re friends and I know they were talking before the meet. I think she let her win to prove the point that, ‘Oh see, a female-to-male beat me.’”

When asked if she believed the pair colluded, the swimmer said: “I do. I can’t say for sure, but I wouldn’t be shocked if I found out that was 100 percent true.”

Henig won the 100 freestyle race with a time of 49.57 seconds. Thomas touched the wall in 52.84 seconds – though she swam the 100 freestyle in 49.42 seconds during a November tri-meet with Princeton and Cornell, OutKick reported.

The anonymous swimmer also believes Thomas wasn’t giving her all in the 200-yard freestyle, which she won with a time of 1:48.73.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Sports; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: liathomas; swimming; transgender
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I hope the GOP will gain some votes from apolitical people who want to preserve girls' sports. Several red states have passed legislation to do so. The hard-core tranny advocates aren't going to vote for us anyway.
1 posted on 01/21/2022 6:18:59 AM PST by karpov
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If you’ll cheat about your gender, you’ll cheat about anything.


2 posted on 01/21/2022 6:21:00 AM PST by ryderann
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Bar both trannies from NCAA competition. They’re cheaters.


3 posted on 01/21/2022 6:22:10 AM PST by sitetest (Professional patient. No longer mostly dead. Again. It's getting to be a habit.)
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Shouldn’t surprise anyone that they’d do anything to keep this perverse farce rolling. If they’re willing to mutilate and chemically castrate themselves then slowing down to female-like performance levels is a piece of cake.


4 posted on 01/21/2022 6:24:55 AM PST by skeeter
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It’s not sports anymore.
It’s just political activism.


5 posted on 01/21/2022 6:25:20 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (The experts are liars. The conspiracy theorists are the people who have figured out the Truth.)
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They absolutely conspired and cheated. A month ago, Will had intimated he was going for the women's record at this meet. They know the heat is on. And sure enough the dipstick NCAA issued guidelines without any teeth, having removed the testosterone blood level testing that kept Caster Semenya out of Tokyo.

So Will can have all the fun he wants for now, but he'll be cleaning pools in about four years with that athletics administration degree in his pocket. SCHADENFREUDE!

"Polls show the transgender ideology is deeply unpopular, especially among women and parents. In 2017, former President Barack Obama told NPR that his promotion of the transgender ideology made it easier for Donald Trump to win the presidency."

6 posted on 01/21/2022 6:27:47 AM PST by StAnDeliver (Each of you have at least 1 of these in your 401k: Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca, J&J, Merck and GSK)
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This is so confusing. Keeping up with who is the she or pretend she or the male or the pretend male, doing this or doing that as a pretend this or real that...ggggrrrrrr##@@*%!!


7 posted on 01/21/2022 6:28:01 AM PST by Sir Bangaz Cracka (Slamming dat white cracka'a head into dat sidewalk causin he be scared)
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So.... the fake male swimmer beat the fake female swimmer, in a fake race? Welcome to Democrat America.


8 posted on 01/21/2022 6:30:11 AM PST by PilotDave (No, really, you just can't make this stuff up!!)
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“What you want to do is appropriate womanhood and turn it into a costume that can be worn.” Dr Phill Show

https://twitter.com/burackbobby_/status/1483960130748223493?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw


9 posted on 01/21/2022 6:31:37 AM PST by READINABLUESTATE ( ‘When tyranny becomes law, resistance becomes duty.’)
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10 posted on 01/21/2022 6:31:55 AM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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If they were colluding, I’d be bummed - Lia is a HERO to me, by simply FORCING the country to deal with crap instead of hiding in fear from the Left. We need her/him to KEEP WINNING.


11 posted on 01/21/2022 6:32:28 AM PST by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's, I just don't tell anyone, like most here.)
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HE still lost to a girl


12 posted on 01/21/2022 6:33:10 AM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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This is pathetic. Destroying everything we love, sports, economy, family, trade, our health, churches...what else?


13 posted on 01/21/2022 6:33:16 AM PST by Karliner (Heb 4:12 Rom 8:28 Rev 3, "...This is the end of the beginning." Churchill)
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49.42 to 52.84 is falling off the end of the world. Losing more than three seconds in a short period of time doesn’t add up at all. This looks like Bobby Riggs levels of tanking.


14 posted on 01/21/2022 6:33:22 AM PST by cdcdawg (Everyone who disagrees with me is a Qtard blogger!!!!)
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Henig won the 100 freestyle race with a time of 49.57 seconds. Thomas touched the wall in 52.84 seconds – though she swam the 100 freestyle in 49.42 seconds

That's the thing about competitive swimming. Your time can be predicted and your effort can be linked to your time.

My cousin is a swim coach. He generally knows how all of his meets will turn out before they happen. Because he knows the times the kids are capable of turning in.

Dropping 3.5 seconds in a 100? That clearly demonstrates lack of effort for one reason or another.
15 posted on 01/21/2022 7:06:50 AM PST by mmichaels1970
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Losing more than three seconds in a short period of time doesn’t add up at all.

He'll say he was on his period.
16 posted on 01/21/2022 7:08:35 AM PST by mmichaels1970
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I believe this.


17 posted on 01/21/2022 7:33:45 AM PST by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
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To: Travis McGee

His agent Debbie in Russia has him booked for the year.


18 posted on 01/21/2022 7:34:31 AM PST by Vaduz ( )
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I was involved in swimming for years. I swam in college and I coached. What most people do not realize here is how really pathetic Thomas is as a swimmer. Every article points to smashing records in some way. Those records are Ivy League records. Those records are women's records. In all honesty those records do not mean jack schiff. Thomas would get his ass kicked by the top 13-14 year old boys in this country. He's a pathetic swimmer against little boys. He certainly couldn't even compete against men in little Ivy League swimming programs. There really is no comparison between Thomas and swimmers from top NCAA Div 1 programs that send teams (not a swimmer or two) to US Nationals (non-collegiate) and the Olympic trials. That goes for both men's and women's programs.

The reason I point this out is to set a base line of what a failure Thomas is as a swimmer. So he takes hormones to dominate rather average women's swimmers in the Ivy League. I'm not taking away from women swimming in Ivy League programs. Those girls go to swim and have fun knowing that they will never be top tier athletes. There is nothing wrong with that. There are a lot of life lessons to be learned when competing at that level.

Thomas has chosen to compensate for his extreme lack of talent by competing against women who lack talent. In all his selfishness he hurts the women he so wants to be. They don't want him. He will never been a woman. He will never be even a decent swimmer, even against women. He will never be a good person. This guy is really messed up in the head and belongs in a mental institution. The same goes to all those that think changing one's gender can be done with surgery and hormones. There should be zero tolerance for these pieces of shit. That begins with ridiculing and abusing this entire movement.

The media is complicit in all this. I have yet to see one article that points out what a failure Thomas is. All it has been about smashing records that mean zero, nada, nothing. Then a mention of how it hurts women's sports. That's the disconnect. Nothing good (smashing Ivy records) should be highlighted as it partly motivates other mentally deranged to do the same as if it was some great achievement. In all honesty, being a great athlete is not a great achievement. There are so many more things more important in life. Sports have a place in life, but it they shouldn't be life.

19 posted on 01/21/2022 8:08:40 AM PST by ConservativeInPA ("Goats are like mushrooms. Because if you shoot a duck, I'm afraid of toasters." - Joe Biden)
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This is all getting very confusing...


20 posted on 01/21/2022 8:39:58 AM PST by Demiurge2 (Define your terms!)
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