Swimming to extinction
Whatever ‘competitional’ integrity transgender UPenn swimmer Lia Thomas professed to believe in was shattered last night at the Ivy League championship.
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This is a rush transcript from “The Ingraham Angle,” February 18, 2022. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.
LAURA INGRAHAM, FOX NEWS HOST: I’m Laura Ingraham and this is THE INGRAHAM ANGLE on a very busy Friday night. Swimming to extinction. That’s the focus of tonight’s angle.
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LIA THOMAS, UPENN SWIMMER: I think the guidelines they set forward are very good and do a very good job of promoting inclusivity while keeping competition integrity going.
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INGRAHAM: Whatever competition will integrity transgender UPenn swimmer Lia Thomas profess to believe in was shattered last night at the Ivy League Championship.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Thomas head’s in for the final turn. It’s going to be a race for second place, it might be 10 going one two, with broker making the turn currently in second place. And over the last half of the pool, nobody will touch Lia Thomas, who will finish at 437, 432, Lia Thomas Ivy league champion in the 500 free.
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INGRAHAM: Now, Thomas not only won that 500 yard freestyle race by a stunning margin, it was about a half a length of the pool. Thomas also established a new record for Harvard University’s pool. Now, even the announcer’s kind of tacitly admitted that it wasn’t Thomas’s intense training or dedication to the craft that was necessarily responsible for the victory. But something else.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You can see the stroke, the powerful stroke of Lia Thomas where there isn’t a whole lot of movement in her leg. She’s using a lot of upper body to reach in and pull and it’s a much quieter stroke even if it’s more powerful than a lot of these other swimmers right now.
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INGRAHAM: Well, I mean, he can’t say, but…
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