On Friday, she won the 500-yard freestyle by 14 seconds with a time of 4:34:06, a huge 14 seconds ahead of Kalandaze and a new Ivy League record. Thomas also smashed many other records over the weekend. This was a pool, meet and program record. On Sunday, in the Zippy International Event in Akron, Ohio, she won the 1,650-yard freestyle event by a staggering 38 seconds from her nearest rival, Anna Sofia Kalandaze. Michael Phelps celebrating after his 7th Gold medal and 7th world record of the games in the 100m Butterfly at the Beijing Olympics in 2008 Thankfully, if you're a woman swimmer born with a female body, Phelps stayed in his gender lane. I think it's safe to say the reaction to this extraordinary situation would have been one of total uproar at the appalling unfairness and inequality it would obviously represent.īut there would have been nothing in the rules to stop him doing it had he wanted to, and if he had, then anyone who dared to publicly challenge or criticise him, now her, would have been promptly branded 'transphobic' by trans activists and those who seek to virtue-signal their trans activism. In short, Phelps would have single-handedly destroyed women's sport forever. He, now she, wouldn't have just dominated women's swimming – he, now she, would have smashed all the women's records by such vast margins that no woman born with a female biological body would have ever come close to beating any of them ever again. Now imagine what would have happened if Phelps had transitioned into a female when at the peak of his powers? in the pool.Īnd that was when he was swimming against other men also born to male biological bodies. 'So, by doing seven days a week, I trained for 52 more days a year than they did.' 'My opponents all trained six days a week,' he explained. When I interviewed him before the London Olympics in 2012, he revealed he'd once gone five consecutive years without a single day off training. Phelps achieved this staggering statistical dominance through a combination of physical prowess, dazzling skill and a uniquely steely work ethic and determination to be the very best. In fact, he is arguably the greatest athlete the world has ever known, period, after winning a record-breaking 28 Olympic medals including 23 golds. Michael Phelps is the greatest swimmer the world has ever known.