Posts under ‘Diving’

Four months after winning a gold medal in platform diving, Australian Matthew Mitcham still has not secured any sponsorships, a development that perplexes him. In an interview with the Sydney Morning Herald, Mitcham says he does not regret coming out before the Games, but does wonder if that has made any companies cautious.
Yeah, I haven’t [...]

Based on this item from the Sydney Morning Herald, gold medalist and totally out Matthew Mitcham gave a brief yet killer acceptance speech when he won Australia’s Sports Performer of the Year Award late last month.
You see, before Mitcham, some winners in other categories had given a fair impression of Gwyneth Paltrow’s infamous Oscars speech [...]

From Down Under comes news that Olympics diving goldist Matt Mitcham has added yet another major award to his fistful of medals.  The coveted Sports Performer of the Year award came to him the other night in Melbourne.  Mitcham was one of eight outstanding athletes who were nominated for the 2008 award, including triathlete Emma Snowsill, swimmer Stephanie Rice [...]

Olympic gold medal diver Matthew Mitcham fearlessly jumps from 30 feet high while doing amazing twists, yet it still freaks him out to have to dive outdoors. And next year’s world diving championships in Rome are outdoors.
“I have a few fears and diving outdoors is one of them,” Mitcham told the Australian. “I usually spot [...]

Gold-medal diver Matthew Mitcham, looking sharp in a sports jacket with no tie, gave an interview this month after winning an Australian aquatics honor. He says he is training harder than before the Olympics since he has to make up for taking off nearly two months following Beijing. He also says he is considering riding [...]

Two weeks after shocking the diving world by winning the gold medal in Olympic platform diving, Australian Matthew Mitcham has been honored with a stamp but has yet to secure a sponsorship deal, though one is rumored.

Before I get into this, I have no information as to whether the kid’s gay, straight, bi or asexual. I have no idea. That’s not the point. In fact, his Facebook page says he’s interested in women, so I’ll take that at face value. But listening to American diver Thomas Finchum in an interview after [...]

Matthew Mitcham, who in August will be the first openly gay Olympic athlete to compete for Australia, gave an interview to Sydney’s gay magazine SX. In it he is pretty ho-hum about being an out athlete and says his mom knew he was gay long before he said so. He also had some choice words [...]

The first signs of Olympic fever hit the airways this weekend. Olympic trials were held for two of what might be called the “heartland” sports: gymnastics and diving. Earnest young (often very young) faces-some of them competing against siblings or childhood friends-turned out from places like Indiana, Wisconsin and Texas. A reminder of how isolated [...]

From Gay.com comes a nice story and gallery of Greg DeStephen, an All-American diver at the University of Missouri. His coming out story mirrored many we have written about, and despite support in high school, the initial reactions of his Mizzou teammates were less than positive.
“It was uncomfortable,” Greg says. “A lot of the guys [...]

Aug. 23, 2008 flash: Matthew Mitcham wins the Olympic gold medal in the 10-meter platform.
(For updates on Mitcham and more news and photos, including video of Mitcham and his partner Lachlan in Beijing, check our Mitcham articles on our Olympics blog.)
Australian diver Matthew Mitcham, 20, is going to Beijing to compete in the Summer Olympics [...]