Michael Phelps: NCAA’s Lia Thomas issue shows need for level playing field

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Michael Phelps says the controversy surrounding transgender NCAA swimmer Lia Thomas is “very complicated.”

Ivy League swimmer Lia Thomas says she’s ‘the Jackie Robinson of trans sports,’ teammate saysThomas, a transgender swimmer on the women’s team at the University of Pennsylvania, competed for three years as a male. NCAA bylaws permit transgender athletes to compete as women if they have undergone testosterone suppression for a year., spoke to the issue as one of doping, saying he doesn’t believe he’s competed in a fair field in his whole career.

“I think this leads back to the organizing committees again,” Phelps said. “Because it has to be a level playing field. That’s something that we all need. Because that’s what sports are. For me, I don’t know where this is going to go. I don’t know what’s going to happen.”Michael Phelps appeared on CNN with Christiane Amanpour, discussing the Lia Thomas situation.Thomas has been demolishing female competition.

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