Over the last week, talkRADIO’s Julia Hartley-Brewer and fellow presenters have been asking politicians and commentators their thoughts on the Trans debate at PMQs as well as the controversy surrounding Lia Thomas who became the first transgender woman to win an NCAA swimming championship.
Boris Johnson has spoken on the trans debate at PMQs and said: “When it comes to distinguishing between a man and a woman, the basic facts of biology remain overwhelmingly important.”
Julia Hartley-Brewer challenged the Chancellor to define what a woman is?
Rishi Sunak: “The PM answered this perfectly, I agree with him.”
Trans activist Debbie Hayton says trans swimmer Lia Thomas “should not be competing with women.”
That victory has sparked an outcry from Thomas’s rivals and escalated the conversation around the future risks to the female category in sport, with World Athletics president Sebastian Coe concerned that women’s sport is in a ‘very fragile’ place.
University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas, a transgender woman, has smashed Ivy League records in the pool since switching from the men’s team to the women’s. Her winning streak has reignited a fierce debate: do trans women have an unfair biological advantage in sports? And are competitive fairness and trans inclusivity mutually exclusive? With 22 states recently introducing bills that would ban trans women and girls from sports, correspondent Lee Cowan talks to advocates and experts on both sides of this contentious issue.
Twenty-nine people were taken to hospital after a high quantity of chlorine gas was released in an accident on Wednesday at the aquatics centre at London’s Olympic park.
Some of the injured included swimmers in a parent and toddler group who were in the children’s pool at the time of the incident, which was first reported by the centre just after 11am.
About 200 people were evacuated from the centre during the incident, firefighters said. At least nine construction workers on a neighbouring site were also treated at the scene.
Lori Coulter is one of the co-founders of Summersalt, a direct-to-consumer swimwear company that has recently expanded into intimates, pajamas, and travel wear. On the heels of closing $6.1 million in Series A funding led by Founders Fund, for a total funding of $8.7 million, she is running one of the most heavily funded female-founded DTC brands. The company launched and attributes its initial success to its ability to offer customers premium swimwear made out of eco-friendly materials, without the designer price tag.
Forbes editor Steve Bertoni sat down with Coulter to talk about her early work in tech and how Summersalt found its footing at the intersection of tech, fashion, and data analysis.
Further to the FINA Bureau’s decision on 8 March 2022 and the new measures at its disposal to exclude Russian and Belarusian athletes and officials from FINA competitions, and following the review of an independent risk assessment, the FINA Bureau met today and confirmed that athletes and officials from Russia and Belarus will not take part in the upcoming 19th FINA World Championships Budapest 2022.
Two-time Elite 90 winner and Carnegie Mellon swimmer Justin Britton shares how swimming has helped him succeed in his academics.
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