Our story earlier this week about Olympic gymnastics hopeful Josh Dixon got lots of attention, but he told the San Jose Mercury News that’s not why he came out publicly. Headed into the national championships in a few weeks, he is focused on being a great athlete first and foremost. Dixon, of San Jose, has [...]
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Josh Dixon comes out as gay, aims for spot on Olympic gymnastics team
The United States has never had a publicly out male gymnast participate in the Olympics. Josh Dixon hopes to be the first. The Stanford grad took a big step toward that goal at the U.S. Men’s Qualifier on Saturday in Colorado Springs, finishing second overall out of the 72 competitors. He also tied for wins [...]
Gymnast Jake Dalton wins 2012 King of the Hardwood contest
The people have spoken. Outsports readers picked American gymnast as the 2012 King of the Hardwood, emblematic of the hottest athlete. He beat out defending champion Eric Decker in the finals at the end of a 64-man tournament. Contest organizer Mariner Duck Guy (who does an amazing job putting this together every year) wrote this [...]
Vote in 2012 King of the Hardwood finals: Eric Decker vs. Jake Dalton
There is one day left to vote in the 2012 King of the Hardwood contest, run by Mariner Duck Guy from our Discussion Board, which crowns our readers’ choice as the hottest athlete in the world. In early voting, defending champion and Denver Broncos receiver Eric Decker has a slight lead over U.S. gymnast Jake [...]
Paul Hamm retires from gymnastics
U.S. Olympic gymnast Paul Hamm announced his retirement yesterday, as he tried to make it back to the Olympics for the first time since 2004; He missed 2008 with an injury. Hamm said his body, at 29 years old, simply couldn’t handle the rigors of training, and that he faced more injuries. I talked to [...]
Lord of the rings — Danell Leyva wins American Cup gymnastics
The Olympics are less than five months away and it’s time to focus on sports that seem to only get attention every four years. One is gymnastics and the big event this past weekend was the American Cup in New York. The men’s event was won by Danell Leyva (photos below) and the women’s by [...]
Openly gay Temple gymnast Dash Sears also Mr. Gay Philadelphia
Junior Temple University gymnast Dash Sears is the reigning Mr. Gay Philadelphia, winning the title last spring. He is one of two openly gay gymnasts on the team, along with Evan Burke, who is out this season with a broken foot (last year’s team had a third gay gymnast, John Gaffney). Thanks to our friend [...]
Navigating a maze in blue: Two gay Michigan gymnasts share their stories
By Ben Baldus-Strauss and Evan Heiter, with Cyd Zeigler Editor’s Note: Ben and Evan were teammates on the 2010 men’s gymnastics national championship team at the University of Michigan. At the time, Evan was out on the team and had been for a while; Ben was in the closet and would remain there until after [...]
7 shirtless jocks on cover of Dutch magazine on gays in sport, and 2 come out as gay
L’HOMO, a special edition of the Dutch women’s magazine Linda, features seven shirtless athletes on its cover in an issue dealing with gays in sports. The catch is that only two of the athletes are gay, with the rest showing their support for the subject. The athletes show a lot of skin in the magazine [...]
Cal axes men’s gymnastics and baseball
Men’s NCAA gymnastics will take another hit next year when the University of California at Berkeley eliminates the sport. As it is, only a dozen NCAA teams exist, thanks in large part to the implementation of Title IX. Cal is axing men’s gymnastics (but keeping women’s gymnastics) as a cost-cutting measure; their men’s baseball team [...]
Weekend Hot Jocks: German gymnasts
The German men’s gymnastics team finished third in the team competition at the world championships in the Netherlands. In looking at their roster, I came across the website for Matthias Fahrig. Fahrig has a terrific gallery that includes he and his teammates in all manner of poses. The gallery is all black and white and [...]
Michigan athletes support gay student president
University of Michigan student body president Chris Armstrong has come under attack recently from Michigan Assistant Attorney General Andrew Shirvell simply for being gay (Shirvell’s hateful blog is now readable by invitation only). But athletes from football, baseball, hockey, gymnastics, rowing, softball and many other sports aren’t standing for it. Instead, they have posed for [...]
Weekend hot jock: Best of 2009
We featured several dozen athletes in our Weekend Hot Jock series this year, so we figured we’d start the new year with a recap of the best of 2009. Maybe the top standout was Minnesota wide receiver Eric Decker. See other top picks after the jump… Share on Facebook
Gymnast turned underwear model
Freddie Stroma is an actor/model who appears in the new Harry Potter movie. Luckily for us, he’s also a gymnast, and he takes to the rings in a new underwear campaign for Acne (why didn’t they just call it “STD” or “Fat Ass”?) underwear. A couple videos from the sexy campaign after the jump. Share [...]
Weekend hot jock: Damien Walters
There isn’t a lot on the Web about British gymnast Damien Walters. He competed in the 2003 Trampoline World Championships and finished fifth in tumbling; He finished fifth again in 2005. He stands 5-foot-11 and is a gemini. He’s a stuntman (sorry, ‘stunt actor‘) for TV and film and appeared in last year’s Hellboy II. [...]
Weekend Hot Jock: Fabian Hambüchen
Our second gymnast in the series is Fabian Hambüchen (also written Hambuechen) from Germany. He’s one of the rare gymnasts who has broken through with a wide appeal in his country, being named the 2007 German sportsperson of the year. In 2004 he was the youngest German athlete to compete at the Olympic Games in [...]
Video: Hot shirtless gymnasts on the rings
Olympic gymnasts Ivan Ivankov, Raj Bhavsar, and Jonathan Horton flex a bit, then perform shirtless on the rings. Share on Facebook
Weekend Hot Jock: Fabian Leimlehner
Fabian Leimlehner is an Austrian gymnast who’s just recently come onto our radar. Not only does he have all the defined muscles of a classic gymnast, but he’s got a beautiful face to boot. The 21-year-old is 5-foot-7, 150 pounds and shares a birthday with none other than our very own Jim Buzinski: Sept. 17. [...]
Video: Hot jock Epke Zonderland
One of our most popular Olympics posts was a photo gallery of Dutch gymnast Epke Zonderland. Here is a video of Zonderland training for the Olympics. Watch only if you like muscular gymnasts working out. Share on Facebook
Video: Gymnast Fabian Hambuechen
Hambuechen, a German gymnast, was one of our Olympic hot jocks. In this video for German TV, he tries his hand at diving. The video is all in German, but he’s shirtless, so what do you care? Share on Facebook