[leaning conservative]

This is so awful for the women & girls who have trained hard to be the best.

[EEGator]

Women are not the best at any sport of any kind.

[Alberta's Child]

This is so awful for the women & girls who have trained hard to be the best.

Seems like a total waste of time to me … because it didn’t take a stunted, delusional man in the pool to prove that they were never going to be the best.

[atc23]

This is so awful for the women & girls who have trained hard to be the best.

Why bring gender into the discussion? If I train in weightlifting, why would I train to beat the teenager or old man? I’m going to train to beat the strongest person in the room.

These women are training to beat the weakest among them. They refuse to train to beat Thomas. Why? Because invariably, women don’t have the mental discipline or the willingness to play by the rules they create. They are using their gender to make excuses for their own inability to accept the world as it is. Stop making excuses and train harder.

ABSOLUTELY NO SYMPATHY

[PLMerite]

“This is so awful for the women & girls who have trained hard to be the best.”

All glory is fleeting. I’d love to know what these women plan to do after swimming. I’d like to think they’re on solid career paths...