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 [...]
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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 [...]
Matthew Mitcham perfect in diving final
Matthew Mitcham must feel like China is a home-pool advantage for him. First, he won the gold medal in the 10-meter men’s platform at the Beijing Olympics, coming from behind on the final dive. And Sunday he won the 10-meter event again at the FINA World Cup in Beijing. And he needed a perfect score [...]
Weekend hot jock: Matthew Mitcham
Congratulations to out Olympic diver Matthew Mitcham, who is the new face of Funky Trunks, a swimwear company that features gorgeous patterns in very tight swimsuits. Some had complained that Mitcham had not been able to land any endorsement deals post-Olympics, so we’re glad he’s found a home in some very hot swimsuits. By the [...]
Matthew Mitcham photos by William Yang
Photographer William Yang recently got Olympic diver Matthew Mitcham to sit down for a photo shoot. I love the outcome. Yang took raw images of Mitcham and his great smile and wrote on the prints. The series is called simply “Photographing Matthew Mitcham” and is presently displayed at a gallery in Sydney. Unfortunately, it looks [...]
Mitcham, Neich named influential Aussies
Australia’s big gay Web site SameSame has released their list of 2009′s most influential gay Aussie, and Matthew Mitcham is one of the highlights. The Olympic gold medalist’s story from 2008 still resonates with people: Openly gay and taking on the Chinese in the pool. Also on the list was Aaron Neich (right, in the [...]
Mitcham does not medal in 10M diving final
Matthew Mitcham misfired on his final dive and finished out of the medals in the 10-meter platform event at the FINA world swimming and diving championships in Rome. This was the same event where the openly gay Aussie shocked the world last year at the Olympics by winning the gold with a sensational final dive. [...]