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The Lia Thomas Debate, Claire Weinstein Sets NAG Record, Titmus Excited to Return to Brisbane’s Crowded House, 10 Things Non-Swimmers Don't Understand, and The Top-10 Performances of the Year

Lia Thomas Debate: Women’s Sports Policy Working Group Focused on Protection of Female Sports

The Lia Thomas situation, in which the transgender athlete is flourishing for the University of Pennsylvania women’s swimming program, is garnering major headlines around the world. The story has been picked up by news outlets in multiple continents and, as the season continues, the debate concerning Thomas’ eligibility is not going away.

As a refresher, Thomas was a member of Penn’s men’s swimming team for three years, earning All-Ivy League honors. But after transitioning from male to female and following a season in which COVID-19 canceled Ivy League athletics, Thomas is now representing the women’s squad. During the early portion of the season, she has produced several top performances, including No. 1-ranked national times in the 200 freestyle and 500 freestyle...

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Katie Grimes Goes 15:34 for 9th All-Time in 1,650; Claire Weinstein Sets 13-14 NAG record

Katie Grimes obliterated the field at the Speedo Winter Junior Championships West meet in Austin, Texas, though she wasn’t the one to set a national age-group record.

The eventful final of the 1,650 freestyle brought accolades for both Grimes and Claire Weinstein. Grimes won in 15:34.72, the meet record and a time that is second only in her age-group to Katie Ledecky. It also enters the top 10 times ever, turned in by a 15-year-old.

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Titmus Test For An Excited And Nervous ‘Arnie’ Who Returns to Brisbane’s Crowded House

One of Australia’s Tokyo golden girls Ariarne Titmus arrived at the Brisbane Aquatic Centre today and unlike her Olympic successes at a Games swum in empty Stadiums, the 21-year-old returned to racing in front of a crowded house.

Titmus joined fellow Games gold medallists Zac Stubblety-Cook, Meg Harris, Mollie O’Callaghan and Chelsea Hodges for the seven-day McDonald’s Queensland State Championships which has attracted over 1600 individual competitors from 146 clubs, many who have found new homes in Queensland and South Australia in an unprecedented post-Olympic transfer rush.

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10 Things the Non-Swimmer Will Never Understand

As swimmers, we spend hours upon hours in the water. When our friends are hanging out after school or on the weekend, we are swimming up and down the black line at practice or at a meet. As swimmers, we have our own idiosyncrasies, language and looks that can be difficult for outsiders to understand, no matter how hard we try to explain. 

Here are 10 things that can be tough for the outsider to understand.

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Ranking the Top-10 Performances of the Year; Caeleb Dressel Leads the Way

Oh, how it is easy to forget. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Swimming World did not select the top-10 performances of the year for 2020. It wouldn’t have made sense. And in the time that has elapsed since the 2019 list was compiled, the difficulty of the task was forgotten. Add in the fact that it was an Olympic year, and the grinding nature of the chore was magnified.

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