Thomas, who took several NCAA titles when he was swimming for UPenn’s women’s swimming team in 2022, wanted to try out for the IJ.S. women’s Olympic swim team, but World Aquatic rules prevented his entry. With all this swirling around swimming this week, former NCAA champion and save women’s sports activist Riley Gaines is urging the NCAA to take action.
“Now the @ncaa needs to strip him of every award, title, and record he stole from a deserving female athlete,” she wrote.
O course, Wor Aquatics an t e NCAA are separate organizations, an Wor Aquatics holds no power over college sports.
On the other hand, World Aquatics is a vast, international organization that governs thousands of swimmers and competitions, and the rules they put in place are not insignificant.
