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Eladio Carrión: Tiny Desk Concert
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Eladio Carrión: Tiny Desk Concert

NPR  

Eladio Carrión: Tiny Desk Concert This Sept. 15 to Oct. 15, NPR Music celebrates artists from all corners of Latinidad with an 'El Tiny' takeover. He kicked things off with a victory lap on “Gladiador,” leading straight into a keys-heavy arrangement of “Air France” and then the delightful staccato of “Tata” off his 2021 album Monarca. As if “Where my …

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Bougainville's destructive goldmine could also be its $90 billion key to independence
1 year, 6 months ago

Bougainville's destructive goldmine could also be its $90 billion key to independence

ABC  

While Bougainville's Panguna mine was abandoned decades ago, mining has not stopped in the area. "All our sources where we used to get clean drinking water, it's been polluted by the mine, by the tailings," she said. But The Human Rights Law Centre's Keren Adams said, on the ground, there was a "sense of frustration that things aren't moving towards …

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‘Dare to dream’: Arsenal star Lia Walti writes message to her younger self
1 year, 9 months ago

‘Dare to dream’: Arsenal star Lia Walti writes message to her younger self

The Independent  

Sign up to Miguel Delaney’s Reading the Game newsletter sent straight to your inbox for free Sign up to Miguel’s Delaney’s free weekly newsletter Sign up to Miguel’s Delaney’s free weekly newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Lia Walti has won the Women’s Super League …

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‘I raced Lia Thomas – and I still feel the burning injustice’
2 years, 1 month ago

‘I raced Lia Thomas – and I still feel the burning injustice’

The Telegraph  

“I was saying how it was wrong,” she reflects. “I asked the officials, ‘You’re seriously going to give this trophy to a biological male over a woman?’ This is b------- and you know it. “I realised that while dentistry would always be there, the relevance and urgency of this issue perhaps wouldn’t be,” she says. Thomas became emblematic of many …

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DAN WOOTTON: How telling that Lionesses made politicians finally admit what it means to be a woman
2 years, 4 months ago

DAN WOOTTON: How telling that Lionesses made politicians finally admit what it means to be a woman

Daily Mail  

Something important struck me in the hours after the Lionesses’ inspiring and historic Euros victory. The entire nation is so proud.’ But that’s the same Slippery Starmer who spent an entire minute on LBC refusing to answer whether a woman could have a penis when he was asked about the travesty of trans swimmer Lia Thomas smashing her biological female …

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Swimming-Transgender Woman Lia Thomas Nominated For NCAA Woman of the Year Honour
2 years, 5 months ago

Swimming-Transgender Woman Lia Thomas Nominated For NCAA Woman of the Year Honour

News 18  

The University of Pennsylvania has nominated transgender swimmer Lia Thomas for the 2022 NCAA Woman of the Year award, the American college sports regulating body said. Thomas shot to fame earlier this year when she became the first transgender NCAA champion in Division I history after winning the women’s 500-yard freestyle in March and she had hoped to compete for …

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Lia Thomas plans to keep swimming - with an eye on Olympics
2 years, 6 months ago

Lia Thomas plans to keep swimming - with an eye on Olympics

Associated Press  

Transgender swimmer Lia Thomas said she intends to keep competing, with the ultimate goal of reaching the Olympics. In an interview that aired Tuesday on ABC’s “Good Morning America,” Thomas also disputed those who say she has an unfair biological edge that ruins the integrity of women’s athletics. “And I lost muscle mass and I became a lot weaker and …

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Transgender swimmer Lia Thomas says ‘trans women are not a threat to women’s sports’
2 years, 6 months ago

Transgender swimmer Lia Thomas says ‘trans women are not a threat to women’s sports’

CNN  

CNN — Transgender swimmer Lia Thomas said trans women are “not a threat to women’s sports” in an interview with ABC on Tuesday. Speaking to ABC’s Juju Chang, Thomas said: “Trans people don’t transition for athletics. I became a lot weaker and a lot slower in the water.” Following NCAA protocols, she took a year off swimming and joined the …

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Lia Thomas becomes first trans woman to win NCAA title
2 years, 9 months ago

Lia Thomas becomes first trans woman to win NCAA title

The Hindu  

Lia Thomas, a University of Pennsylvania swimmer, became the first transgender NCAA champion in Division I history after winning the women's 500-yard freestyle in Atlanta. Thomas beat Virginia's Emma Weyant by 1.75 seconds with a time of four minutes and 33.24 seconds on Thursday, falling short of Katie Ledecky's NCAA record time of 4:24.06. Last month, USA Swimming unveiled a …

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Sharron Davies warns of legal action as Lia Thomas transgender participation controversy continues
2 years, 9 months ago

Sharron Davies warns of legal action as Lia Thomas transgender participation controversy continues

The Telegraph  

Sharron Davies has warned of a wave of legal action from “biological females” unless something was done to stop Lia Thomas and other transgender athletes racing in women’s swimming. Britain’s 1980 Olympic 400 metres medley silver medallist the Telegraph Sport she was hopeful planned new rules by the sport’s world governing body, FINA, would prevent Thomas adding to her historic …

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Transgender swimmer Lia Thomas sets Ivy record in 200-yard freestyle at Ivy championships
2 years, 10 months ago

Transgender swimmer Lia Thomas sets Ivy record in 200-yard freestyle at Ivy championships

CNN  

CNN — Lia Thomas, a transgender woman swimmer for the University of Pennsylvania, won the 200-yard freestyle race at the Ivy League women’s swimming and diving championships on Friday in a minute and 43.12 seconds, setting a new Ivy record. A fifth-year senior who previously competed for the Penn men’s swimming team, Thomas began transitioning genders about 2 and a …

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Penn swimmer Lia Thomas swims on amid controversy
2 years, 10 months ago

Penn swimmer Lia Thomas swims on amid controversy

Associated Press  

PHILADELPHIA — Lia Thomas has racked up win after win in the pool all season for the University of Pennsylvania, rushing toward the NCAA championships next month with a record-setting season that has only inflamed a debate surrounding her gender. If you’re playing sports, you have to expect that some people are going to be better than you.” Thomas is …

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USA Swimming unveils new rules for transgender athletes
2 years, 10 months ago

USA Swimming unveils new rules for transgender athletes

Al Jazeera  

The new policy could affect Lia Thomas, who transitioned and moved from the University of Pennsylvania men’s team to the women’s team. USA Swimming, which governs the sport in the United States, has unveiled a new policy that would allow transgender athletes to compete in elite events, but included criteria that the organisation said would mitigate unfair advantages. “USA Swimming …

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Caitlyn Jenner transgender women UPenn swimmer Lia Thomas should NOT compete with biological women
2 years, 11 months ago

Caitlyn Jenner transgender women UPenn swimmer Lia Thomas should NOT compete with biological women

Daily Mail  

Caitlyn Jenner has called on the National Collegiate Athletic Association to immediately stop transgender athletes like University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas from competing against their biological counterparts. Caitlyn Jenner has said the 'woke world' is not working for women's sports and is calling on the NCAA to adjust their transgender policy for sports Writing on Twitter, Jenner stated explicitly …

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