Sports Illustrated - USA (2022-04)

So, when the funeral procession began to move through the streets, there was no telling just how the neighbor- hoods would respo ...

TO SWIM AS BY ROBERT SANCHEZ ...

LIA THOMAS WAS THE DOMINANT FORCE IN WOMEN’S COLLEGE SWIMMING THIS SEASON. THE RECORDS SHE SET MAY BE BROKEN ONE DAY, BUT HER PO ...

Fresh off her final practice of the week, the most controversial athlete in America sat in the corner of a nearly empt y Philade ...

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by an anonymous teammate. The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal have also written about her. The a ...

SPORTS ILLUSTRATED SI.COM APRIL 2022 65 to this moment, to know what it felt like to be in a body but not be of that body. She w ...

66 best to inch closer to coming out to close friends, a couple of coaches,” she says. “But in that depressive, very struggling ...

SPORTS ILLUSTRATED SI.COM APRIL 2022 67 On Dec. 5, two days after the Ohio meet, some Penn swim parents sent a letter to the NCA ...

issued an unequivocal statement that Thomas would be allowed to swim. At least two Penn swimmers who support Thomas con- fronted ...

SPORTS ILLUSTRATED SI.COM APRIL 2022 69 Less than two weeks after USA Swimming issued its guidelines, the NCAA seemingly cleared ...

BY BRIAN BURNSED PHOTOGRAPH BY KEVIN D. LILES ...

Gene Siller followed his golf DREAM. In the end, it was a NIGHTMARE ...

72 Letters of condolence. File folders stuffed with insurance policies and investment accounts. The contents of a husband’s golf ...

SPORTS ILLUSTRATED SI.COM APRIL 2022 73 G ENE’S PATH TO the 10th green at Pinetree started at Clover nook Count r y Club, f ive ...

74 he promised her they’d always stay nearby, even if that limited his pool of potential employers as he worked toward becoming ...

SPORTS ILLUSTRATED SI.COM APRIL 2022 75 hourlong commute to work. This time, Ashley ref lected not on all that she had, but on a ...

motionless, the white truck’s engine still rumbling. She helped roll Siller’s body over and observed that he’d been shot through ...

Be truthful. Be direct. Don’t lie. Speak their language. The boys asked Mommy whether she was O.K. She told them she wasn’t, tha ...

again, until his blood was soaked into the soil. But still his memory remains ingrained on the course. Byrne, for one, can’t sha ...