to win back the wba, ibf and wbo titles he lost in september at tottenham hotspur stadium. swimming s world governing body, fina has voted to stop transgender athletes from competing in women s elite races if they have gone through any part of the process of male puberty. it s a huge move for the sport voted for during an extraordinary general congress at the ongoing world championships in budapest. jane dougall is here to tell us more. jane how much of a surpise is this decision? not particularly, it was widely expected in the swimming community. it has been prompted by lia thomas, the first non transgender swimmer to win, sorry, non female. inaudible. it will stop her competing in the
good girl. going from 30 years, full on, full time, oh, i was in floods of tears as you can imagine. my last day oh, i m going to get. yeah, it sjust such a hard thing to do leave leave a job and the people that you ve grown up with and loved, and i still felt passionate about the public. i m so pleased i had the open water swimming because my little community in the police was replaced by my swimming community. it all started as a bit of fun and then, we thought,
a hard thing to do leave leave a job and the people that you ve grown up with and loved, and i still felt passionate about the public. i m so pleased i had the open water swimming because my little community in the police was replaced by my swimming community. it all started as a bit of fun and then, we thought, well, why not raise money for charity as well? and we got 100 people involved within a couple of weeks, from all over the uk. it was amazing. and itjust grew and grew. seeing new people coming down, you know, once one person does it, then they pull other people in and everyone gets addicted.
about the public. i m so pleased i had the open water swimming because my little community in the police was replaced by my swimming community. it all started as a bit of fun and then we thought, well, why not raise money for charity as well? and we got 100 people involved within a couple of weeks, from all over the uk. it was amazing. and itjust grew and grew. seeing new people coming down, you know, once one person does it, then they pull other people in and everyone gets addicted.
job again. they ve been today, like this is the way that it is, this is what can and i have to say not just penn, it s all the ivy league, but none of the athletes have been given the opportunity to really speak out on this. so, you have four swimmers that have come out publicly with their names being supportive of her. but all of the women who are supportive of biological women, the women s category, they re not allowed to speak out. i mean, this is the ivy league. these are our best institutions. well, i want to make clear that there s a divided opinion within the swimming community. i made reference to the letter that the teammates sent. but i also made reference to more than 300 swimmers under the banner of skylar baylor from harvard, saying, hey, we support lia thomas and her right to compete. written lies the resolution? how does this end? from what i can tell, until