The Californian athlete at the center of a burning political debate on the competition of trans girls in the sports of girls returned to the house on Saturday in what is undoubtedly the most competitive athletics meeting in the country.
Ab Hernandez, a junior of the secondary school Jurupa Valley in the county of Riverside, shared the first place of the high jump and triple jump, and also shared second in long jump. His place on the prize podium was a sign of the complexity of his participation in the competition.
President Trump threatening to reduce federal funding to the state if the trans girl has contributed, the event organizer changed the rules a few days before the event in the hope of eating concerns concerning the equity of allowing Ms. Hernandez to compete. The athlete who finished behind Ms. Hernandez would be raised to share her placement.
The first prizes intervened after the long jump, and this moment of recognition did not prove to be clumsy or controversial, as some people feared.
The two girls – Mrs. Hernandez and Brooke White by River City High School – joked like all the teenage girls, giving herself an enthusiastic high -hand high -face before they tighten on a stage of the podium together. Then, after the two received medals, they placed their arms, held their medals from their chest and smiled for photos.
Ms. Hernandez and the event winner – Wilson High School’s Loren Webster – had both jumped more than one foot further than anyone in the event. For Ms. Webster, it was a consecutive state of state in the event before going to competition at the University of Oregon.
