Keith Olbermann has sparked controversy over his personal attack on former NCAA swimming champion Riley Gaines.
Keith Olbermann, the repeatedly fired former ESPN sports anchor, has sparked controversy over his personal attack on former NCAA swimming champion Riley Gaines for her activism to save women’s sports from being undermined by male-born “transgender women” athletes.
Olbermann, who has been fired by CNN, ESPN, MSNBC, Current TV, and a long list of smaller news agencies, jumped to his X account to taunt Gaines with an unhingedsaying, “Can you just address the reality and move past it? You sucked at swimming. That’s why you lost.” While it is often hard for a sane person to know what Olbermann is ranting about at any given time, in this case, he is likely talking about Gaines’ fourth-place finish in the 2022 NCAA swimming championships in whichOlbermann was also apparently upset over Gaines’ defense of a Nebraska “Women’s Bill of Rights,” which maintains that “males and females possess immutable biological differences,” which Gov.
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