{"id":2015,"date":"2023-10-31T18:06:24","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T18:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/storypress.site\/?p=2015"},"modified":"2023-10-31T18:06:24","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T18:06:24","slug":"riley-gaines-beats-lia-thomas-for-the-last-spot-on-the-pro-tour-she-never-gave-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/storypress.site\/?p=2015","title":{"rendered":"Riley Gaines Beats Lia Thomas For the Last Spot on the Pro Tour: \u201cShe Never Gave Up\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In what bookmakers are calling the upset of all time in women\u2019s swimming, Riley Gaines beat Lia Thomas for the last spot left on the US Pro Swimming Tour.<\/p>\n<p>USPST President Joe Barron says they weren\u2019t considering Gaines at all until she requested a qualifier against the other six people already in contention. She had her attorney draw up a letter, and boom: It was on.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMs. Gaines wasn\u2019t going to sit on the sidelines and do nothing,\u201d said Attorney Ryan J Fish of Williams, Vanden, and Boom, \u201cthe only fair play was to get in the pool.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Against incredible odds, Gaines pulled out a win by less than a second in the 10K Meter Quad Stroke. \u201cIt was really impressive,\u201d said Barron, \u201cshe never gave up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s what being a superstar is all about. We sent ALLOD Forensic Journalist to Kentucky, because we couldn\u2019t think of a better place to have a race with Riley Gaines in it, and found that the entire story may be fabricated, but that it\u2019s \u201cplausibly true if you think about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In essence, what Riley Gaines has gone through has brought us to the point that rewarding her for continuing to make a 5th-place tie so relevant has become about a bi-weekly thing, and that\u2019s probably not gonna stop until someone new joins \u201cThe View.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In what bookmakers are calling the upset of all time in women\u2019s swimming, Riley Gaines beat Lia Thomas for the last spot left on the US Pro&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2016,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finance"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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