With the Olympics in London this summer, it’s only fitting that portraits and photos of gold medal diver Matthew Mitcham will be featured as part of an exhibit in the city for Australian artist Ross Watson. As part of the run-up to the Sept. 25 exhibit opening, actor Sir Ian McKellen has signed a print [...]
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Eye on sports: Our favorite photos of the week
We present our favorite photos of the past sports week. This week’s offerings include Aussie Rules Football players playing the surf as part of a recovery session, a Chipper Jones sighting, diving from Fort Lauderdale, NFL minicamps, track and field and triathlon. Click image for larger, full-sized view: Share on Facebook
Eye on sports: Our favorite photos of the week
We present our favorite photos of the past sports week. This week’s offerings include Canada Cup diving, the NCAA men’s volleyball championships, world rowing, mixed martial arts, NFL minicamps and the funky hair of Bryce Harper of the Washington Nationals. Click image for larger, full-sized view (and that image for the largest view): Share on [...]
Former New Zealand diver Simon Latimer chosen as Olympics diving judge
Simon Latimer, a former elite diver from New Zealand who wrote about his coming out for Outsports five year ago, will be a judge in the diving competition during the London Summer Olympics. He told GayNZ: “I like it because it’s instantaneous. And it’s an opportunity for you to give your opinion. In some other [...]
Matthew Mitcham proud to carry the banner for gay athletes
Matthew Mitcham is not shying away from being labeled the “gay diver.” Instead, he is embracing the unique role he has an openly gay elite athlete, knowing his speaking out can make a difference. In an interview with the Sydney Morning Herald, Mitcham was clear that interest in his being a gay athlete was not [...]
Matthew Mitcham hits perfect dive, qualifies for Olympics
Matthew Mitcham will get a chance to defend his 10-meter platform title at the Olympics after qualifying at the Australian diving trials in Adelaide. He scored a perfect 10 from all seven judges during his fifth dive. “It’s nice to be back,” said Mitcham, 24. It looks like everything I’m doing is starting to work [...]
China sweeps FINA Diving World Cup gold. David Boudia snags fourth in 10m platform.
We followed the FINA Diving World Cup this weekend as we lead up to our Olympics coverage this summer. It was fantastic to see American David Boudia (right) finish strongly in fourth place, just off of the podium, for the Men’s 10m Platform. Qiu Bo took the 10m gold and is setting himself up nicely [...]
Matthew Mitcham fails to make Diving World Cup Finals. David Boudia 5th into finals.
Defending Olympic gold medalist Matthew Mitcham failed to make the 12-man final at the FINA Diving World Cup on Saturday, finishing 13th in the semifinals. He had finished fourth in the preliminary round the day before. Mitcham blamed his less-than-stellar performance on an abdominal injury he dealt with through much of 2011 (you can even [...]
Matthew Mitcham discusses, shows off his pierced tongue
We’re less than six months away from the start of the London Summer Olympics, and Australian diver Matthew Mitcham will be hoping to win another gold medal. Mitcham has an active Twitter feed and he often answers questions sent in by fans. This might fall into the TMI category, but Mitcham discloses that he has [...]
British Olympic diver Tom Daley is all grown up, and he knows it
When we last saw British diver Tom Daley, he was a young 14-year-old Olympian. He’ll be 18 at the Olympics this summer in his home country. What a difference four years makes. He jumped in front of the camera recently, along with some other British Olympic hopefuls, to lip sync to LMFAO’s “I’m Sexy and [...]
Greg Louganis wants to be on ‘Dancing with the Stars’
Openly gay and HIV-positive Olympic diving legend Greg Louganis wants to waltz on ABC’s ‘Dancing with the Stars’ next season. Louganis fans have created a Facebook campaign to push the alphabet network to extend an invitation to Louganis, and the campaign is getting some attention. DWTS has been in Louganis’ cross-hairs for a couple years, as [...]
Matthew Mitcham returns from injury, wins Australian diving championship
Openly gay Olympic champion diver Matthew Mitcham returned from an abdominal injury to take the Australian diving championship in the 10m platform on Sunday. With just two weeks of preparation he blew away the sub-Olympic competition. According to the Associated Press, Mitcham is putting all his eggs in the 10m platform basket for the London [...]
Moment #10: Matthew Mitcham wins diving gold medal in Beijing
Part of Outsports’ series on our 100 most important moments in gay sports history. Diving, 2008. You’ve seen the likes of it in big Hollywood movies, but you’ve rarely seen it in real life. The hopes of gay fans around the world hung on one single dive. In the 10m finals in Beijing, Matthew Mitcham needed a [...]
Moment #14: Diver Greg Louganis comes out publicly at Gay Games IV
Part of Outsports’ series on our 100 most important moments in gay sports history. Diving, 1994: “Welcome to the Gay Games, it’s great to be out and proud.” With those words, gold medal Olympic diver Greg Louganis delivered a message to the Opening Ceremonies of Gay Games IV in New York. While it might have [...]
Moment #93: David Pichler, Patrick Jeffrey compete as openly gay in Olympics
Part of Outsports’ series on our 100 most important moments in gay sports history. Diving 1996, 2000: Greg Louganis is by far the most famous openly gay Olympic diver, but David Pichler and Pattick Jeffrey also take their place in gay sports history. Pichler came out in 1996 and competed in the Atlanta Games that year [...]
Gay coach seeks other coaches for thesis
Jeff Thomae, a graduate student at Minnesota State University in Mankato, and himself a diving coach, is seeking gay male college coaches for his thesis. He said he has three coaches already but needs more to be able to do the research. All respondents are promised confidentiality. Thomae describes what he is looking for: I’m [...]
Out athletes abound at Yale
Think out NCAA athletes are still rare? That’s changing fast. There’s a fantastic article in the Yale Daily News about gay athletes on campus there, and they name names of a half-dozen out athletes at the school, including diver Colton Staab ’12 (right). The best story of the bunch involves a swimmer (the one out [...]
Matthew Mitcham wins 4 diving silvers
Australian diver Matthew Mitcham wound up with four silver medals at the just-concluded Commonwealth Games in India. The Games feature athletes from the 54 nations of what was formerly the British Commonwealth. Mitcham lost the 10-meter platform event to Tom Daley of Britain, who had one dive that had perfect 10s. Share on Facebook
Gallery: European swimming and diving
The 2010 European swimming and diving championships were held this month in Budapest, Hungary. And thanks to G. Scala at Deepbluemedia.eu, we were able to put together a photo gallery from the event. One of my favorites is this French foursome who got real close to each after a relay win: Share on Facebook
Neil Everett is so straight he hates speedos
ESPN SportsCenter hosts are so macho and cool. They’re the most awesome, masculine dudes around, man. Just take Neil Everett and Robert Flores. They proved it last night when they showed a diver in a speedo plummeting a good 30 meters to the water below. Everett’s comment on the dive: You know what’s not a [...]