Civil War Erupts on Sports Twitter Over Pablo Torre-Riley Gaines Spat

Sportswriter Pablo Torre faced a bevy of attacks from OutKick personalities over an episode of his show focused on former collegiate swimmer Riley Gaines.

Thursday’s episode of the investigative show Pablo Torre Finds Out took a closer look at Gaines’s rise to fame in conservative media. The 25-year-old famously competed against transgender swimmer Lia Thomas when the two were in college, and Gaines has since become one of the more vocal advocates for banning trans athletes from women’s sports.

Throughout the 80-minute episode, Torre examined everything from Gaines’s rhetoric to the financial side of her career. Torre also seemed to take issue with what he characterized as Gaines’s relative silence on the matter of her former college coach Lars Jorgensen being accused of sexually assaulting her teammates. Torre cited a tweet Gaines posted when the allegations were brought to light, but criticized her not speaking out on the issue as much as she’s spoken out about trans athletes.