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All eyes are on lane number 4 on March 17 in Atlanta, Georgia.
A swimmer from the University of Pennsylvania has just shattered the university record for freestyle swimming over 500 yards (about 457 m), during the NCAA university championships, which are being held at the McAuley aquatic center, on the campus of Georgia Tech, leaving the second a long way behind, more than 1.5 seconds away.
Lia Thomas, 22, achieves a performance that is all the more exceptional as she flies from victory to victory, over 100, then 200 yards.
The previous February 18, she had already won the Ivy League women's 500-yard freestyle, a competition between eight of the most prestigious American universities, including Harvard, Yale and Cornell.
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This reserved Texan and originally from Austin - 1.90 m, medium-length brown hair - does not however owe her notoriety to her performances, but to a lifestyle choice: until 2019, Lia was named Will.
She has just become the first transgender swimmer...
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