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Swimmer Lia Thomas insisted Tuesday that male-to-female transgender athletes pose no threat to women's sports, arguing that losing races, team slots and scholarships is "part of athletics."
Two doctors told The New York Times that Lia Thomas has an unavoidable biological advantage because she was born male.
Community, and that's a shame. but i'd love to see her get out of this camp and come up to north america, train here, train clean, and go back and compete again in russia for russia but as a clean athlete, away from the camp, away from what has really just crushed her. give her a second life in skating. she oogs very young and has a lot left to prove and a lot left to show. but get her out of that camp, get her out of that, and give her a chance to start fresh and clean and new and to do the things she can do on the ice that will elevate the sport ultimately. >> scott hamilton, always a pleasu...
They've been caught before, they'll keep trying and do it again and again and again. you know, the ioc, the olympic movement, the -- everything's at risk here. i mean, everything is at risk when you look at the olympic games and what they embody and what they represent, and to have it diminished in this way by russia constantly, brazenly, without any remorse or any hesitation, measures need to be taken. and maybe russia just needs to be complete dlooeted from the games entirely. >> dr. joyner, first of all, that report that she shared dishes with her grandfather and that's how she got a positi...
Endings in olympic history. today, the head of the ioc called the treatment of kamila valiyeva chilling, but there are questions. what is the ioc's responsibility in all this? and where are the adults who are supposed to protect these very young athletes? joining me now to discuss, gadi schwartz, scott hamilton, and michael joyner, anesthesiologist at the mayo clinic and an expert in human performance. gadi, we talked in the amp math of the competition and you wrote to me what i think a lot of people were thinking. it felt like we were watching child abuse in real time. talk about the fallout ...