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At this point, she is deep into her own transformation, deep into the never-ending news cycle.

And so on the day that the news breaks on the Swimming World Insider website, Swim Swam, that this investigation was going on and Jorgensen had been put in leave, Riley was actually testifying to the Senate Judiciary Committee.

She's bringing up the usual talking points about how having men in women's sports is a violation of women's safety, all that now familiar stuff.

Having men and women's sports is wrong and that it's unfair and it's a violation to, again, our privacy and rights to safety as women.

And a week after we learn about this investigation on Swim Swam, Jorgensen resigns.

The University of Kentucky tells me they negotiated a settlement for a fraction of his contract value in exchange for him cooperating with their inquiry.

And meanwhile, back on Swim Swam, in the comments section, which is pretty lively, as I've learned.

I have heard of Swim Swam before.

It is the place for argument, commentary, and it turns out, tips in a larger investigation.

The stories about Jorgensen were not just about running swimmers ragged and the kinds of eating disorder pressures that we see throughout women's sports.

It got even darker.

And so we find out exactly how much darker in April 2024.

And that's when two people on the swim team, both of them former members of the team who Jorgensen had then hired as assistant coaches, they filed another lawsuit alleging that Jorgensen sexually assaulted them.

One of the swimmers who files this lawsuit, she alleges that Jorgensen forcibly raped her multiple times between 2019 and 2023, which includes Riley's time on the team.

And it says that he would tell the alleged victim he would ruin her reputation if she told anyone.

The other one says that in 2022, he groped and kissed her without consent.

And their complaint also alleges that he raped a third assistant coach at his home after a Christmas party several years earlier.

Lars Jorgensen did not respond to questions that I sent him.

His lawyers didn't either.

In court papers, he said that the sexual assault claims are not true.