Category: Emma McKeon

Trans Athletes Could ‘Compete Against Each Other’: Aussie Swimming Icon Dawn Fraser

April 21, 2022
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Swimming legend Dawn Fraser has dived into the transgender sporting debate, becoming Australia’s third high-profile female swimmer to speak up on what has turned into a controversial issue amid the 2022 federal election campaign. Her comment comes after Australia’s most decorated Olympian Emma McKeon and Olympic gold medallist Emily Seebohm this week aired their concerns about…

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‘I Wouldn’t Even Place’ in Race Against Trans Athletes: Aussie Olympic Gold Medallist

April 21, 2022
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Australian Olympic gold medallist Emily Seebohm has voiced concerns about the lack of fairness in competitive sports where transgender athletes are allowed to play against female-born athletes, saying that she “wouldn’t even place” if she competed in the male’s category. The 29-year-old revealed on Thursday that she shared the same opinion as swimmer Emma McKeon,…

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Australia’s Most Successful Olympian ‘Wouldn’t Want To’ Race Against Trans Athletes

April 20, 2022
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Australia’s greatest Olympian Emma McKeon has revealed she did not want to race against biologically male athletes as the transgender debate continues to dominate headlines ahead of the federal election on May 21. Speaking at a Griffith University forum in Queensland on Tuesday night, the 27-year-old said trans athletes’ participation in female categories is a…

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McKeon on for Record Haul, Dressel Goes for High Five

July 31, 2021
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TOKYO—Australian Emma McKeon could bow out of Tokyo 2020 on Sunday as the first female swimmer to win seven medals at a single Olympics. No Australian has ever won that many in one Games and Russian gymnast Maria Gorokhovskaya, in 1952, is the only woman to have achieved seven in any other sport. McKeon goes…

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