Watching Lia Thomas Win
Lia Thomas dives off the starting block during the Women's Ivy League Swimming & Diving Championships. (Joseph Prezioso/AFP via Getty Images).
The transgender swimmer smashes more records at the Ivies. ‘It can’t feel good to know that there’s nobody in the stands who is happy you won.’
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Watching Lia Thomas swim is more relaxing than watching the other swimmers on the women’s team. Thomas glides easier—her competitors in the Harvard pool have to kick much more frequently than she does but get less far—and her shoulders almost swallow the straps of the one-piece running down the center of her back as her body torques. She’s better at swi…
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