Faced with a man who keeps beating women in swim races, USA Swimming, the NCAA’s swimming chapter, has been forced to come up with rules to address mentally-ill or opportunistic men who claim to be women for athletic purposes. Currently, all that it’s done is to make clear that there’s no way it’s going to stop buying into the woke delusion that men can be women just because they say so—and, at the very least, non-elite women will have to compete with men.
Will Thomas, a strapping young man who swam for several years on the University of Pennsylvania’s men’s swim team without distinguishing himself, announced that he’s a woman named Lia and suddenly became a standout on UPenn’s swim team. Having possibly thrown a race to prove that “men” don’t always win, Thomas was back winning again in races on Saturday:
Competing during an NCAA college swimming meet with Harvard University in Boston, Massachusetts, Thomas won the Women’s 100m and Women’s 200m Freestyle races, although the margin’s were far narrower than in previous races [he] won in 2021.
Thomas won [his] 100m race in 50.55 seconds with [his] closest competitor coming in at 51.51.
In the 200m race, [his] won in 1:47.08 with the second place being secured in 1:48.44.
I cynically suspect that Thomas’s smaller margins of victory are because he’s decided to pace himself. What he learned back in December, when news of his victories first burst onto the scene, is that, if he swam at full speed, the whole con would become obvious. He probably threw the next race but that turned out to be obvious too. This time around, Thomas is trying to win but not by too much. If you’re familiar with The Incredibles, think of the race Dash runs at the end of the move:
