{"id":57140,"date":"2025-03-27T14:45:01","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T14:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=57140"},"modified":"2025-03-27T14:45:02","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T14:45:02","slug":"breaking-swim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=57140","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Swim&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"520\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-1251.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-57141\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-1251.png 520w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-1251-260x300.png 260w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The dispute arose from Riley Gaines\u2019 belief that the NCAA unfairly prioritized inclusivity over fairness in awarding medals, particularly in the case of Lia Thomas, a transgender swimmer. Gaines, a decorated swimmer, argued that Thomas\u2019 participation in women\u2019s competitions undermined the merit-based nature of sports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gaines\u2019 $50 million settlement serves as a vindication, reaffirming the importance of merit in athletics. She expressed relief, emphasizing that the victory is about upholding fairness and integrity in sports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>also read&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The dispute arose from Riley Gaines\u2019 belief that the NCAA unfairly prioritized inclusivity over fairness in awarding medals, particularly in the case of Lia Thomas, a transgender&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57141,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57140"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57142,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57140\/revisions\/57142"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/57141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}