Pablo Torre

at the NCAA swimming championships, that is like sexual assault.

Remember when she went back and forth with Simone Biles, right?

Simone Biles, actual victim of Larry Nassar, basically made those things equivalent.

She herself has experienced this thing.

And so I'll just quote one of Riley's teammates, and forgive me for going on about this, because I just need to sort of put this in full context.

What one of Riley Gaines' teammates told us, Trinity Ward, on tape, with her own face, which is incredibly brave to do,

is all the time she goes out and people ask her, because she tells them I swam for University of Kentucky, oh, do you know Riley Gaines?

And she asks them in response, do you know about Lars Jorgensen?

And what Trinity Ward said to us is, and this is me paraphrasing, it's really hard for me to care about Riley Gaines tying for fifth place.

when our head coach was accused of raping our teammates.

And like, that is not abstract.

That is the reality of the locker room that has become this social experiment for American politics to fight it out over.

And somehow the biggest story about the predation of our actual young women in sports gets entirely ignored until you get a former teammate like this speaking out about it.

It's crazy, man.

And there is like a dark comedy in this.

Like the thing you think you should be paying attention to is over here.

The actual crisis in women's sports, which any female athlete can tell you, which largely involves, by the way, men in positions of power.

Like the irony, Dan, the sheer irony, right?

And the reason I say alleged is because all of this, of course, is very carefully legally vetted.

And I want to be very careful about all of this.