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Greg Louganis at an Olympic event in April (Photo by Chris Trotman/Getty Images for USOC) For the first time in 16 years, Greg Louganis will be attending a Summer Olympics, glad to be back working with the sport that made him famous. Louganis, who won four gold medals at the 1984 and 1988 Olympics, has […]

Australian swimmer Matt Targett is seriously built and he knows it. On his Twitter page, the former Auburn Tiger swimmer posted a picture of himself channeling his inner Hugh Jackman as Wolverine from “X-Men.” Wrote Targett: How much trouble will I get in for posing with guns? This is a reference to fellow Aussie swimmers […]

Lolo Jones, track Following up on my list of the 30 best male bodies in the Olympics, we bring you the 20 best female bodies. Not being — to the best of my knowledge — a straight guy or a lesbian, I felt out of my depth. So I turned to the terrific Lucy Hallowell […]

Matthew Mitcham (Photo: Chris Hyde/Getty Images) Story updated.The number of openly gay and lesbian athletes at the 2012 London Summer Olympics is ahead of the totals for Athens in 2004 and Beijing in 2008, with all but three being lesbians. There are 23 openly gay and lesbian London Olympians, plus two coaches. There are also […]

Jayden Hadler, swimming The Olympics are the best sports showcase for the beauty of the human body, male and female. One bonus of hours of insane training and diet is a rockin' bod, and we all notice, gay, straight or somewhere else on the spectrum. As one Olympian told ESPN the Magazine, "Even if their […]

Matthew Mitcham is the only openly gay Australian Olympian (Photo: Chris Hyde/Getty Images) Australian Olympic shooters Russell and Lauryn Mark are making asses of themselves after whining that they won't be able to stay together in the Olympic village. He says it's anti-heterosexual discrimination. "The stupid part of this, which I have argued to them, […]

Ryan Lochte (Photo: Andrew Weber-US PRESSWIRE) The biggest takeaway from the highly entertaining ESPN the Magazine piece on sex in the Olympic village is that if you want to have fun as an Olympian, be single. “My last Olympics, I had a girlfriend — big mistake,” swimmer Ryan Lochte says. “Now I’m single, so London […]

4 We present our favorite photos of the past sports week. This week’s offerings, on the typically slow early July news week, include Italian soccer players training as only they can (on a beautiful beach); rising stars at the Major League Baseball All-Star Game; Olympic basketball training and a victorious mixed martial artist. Click image […]

The issue of homophobia in women’s sports is one that is pervasive and still exists even though the climate has changed. Over the years we have heard of numerous female coaches and players who are lesbians (and whose orientation is known within their circle) but who don’t want to come out publicly because of the […]

Eamon Sullivan (L) and James Magnussen (R) Swimming is one of Australia's national sports and their star swimmers get rock star treatment. Stephanie Rice is the queen of Aussie swimming, while the new king looks to be freestyler James Magnussen. The 21-year-old is the current world champion in the 100-meter freestyle and the favorite for […]

Tom Daley, 18, is the most popular Olympian in Britain and a medal favorite in the men’s 10-meter platform diving event at the London Games. He graces the cover of magazines shirtless, makes playful music videos and commercials (see below), has 254,000 Twitter followers and has girls screaming every place he appears. He was also […]

The Kluwes: Chris and Isabel with daughters Remy (left) and Olivia Minnesota Vikings punter Chris Kluwe has produced a second terrific ad for Minnesotans for Equality against a ballot initiative this November that would write marriage discrimination into the state’s constitution. Kluwe, who gave a must-read interview to Outsports where he talked about his support […]

One of the more interesting and charismatic (and best-looking) Olympians is U.S. middle distance runner Nick Symmonds. If he’s not having lunch with Paris Hilton, he’s winning the 800 meters at the U.S. Olympic trials by sticking out his tongue at the finish line. He’s cool while being hot. And the New York Times reports […]

David Boudia, diving With the Fourth of July here and the Olympics less than a month away, it's time to feel patriotic if you're an American. In that spirit, US PRESSWIRE took some awesome photos of Olympic hopefuls showing their colors. These photos were shot in May, so not everyone below qualified for the team. […]

Stephany Lee, right, and her wife, Brigg McDonald Stephany Lee, an openly lesbian wrestler who married her partner a day after qualifying for the London Olympics, was kicked off the team after testing positive for smoking marijuana. Pot is a banned substance under U.S. Olympic Committee rules. Lee's win at the Olympic trials and marriage […]

Megan Rapinoe (Photo by: Jerome Miron-US PRESSWIRE) U.S. star women’s soccer player Megan Rapinoe, who will be on the Olympic team, seemed to be a bit coy in May when she replied “we’re out there” to a question about when a star player would come out. If there was any doubt, she made it official […]

1 Ryan Lochte and Michael Phelps, as expected, have been the stars so far of the U.S. men's Olympic swimming trials in Omaha. Phelps is on track to qualify for eight events in London, making him the most dominant swimmer of his era. Lochte has been the it guy of the U.S. team (with that […]

Former rugby player Ben Cohen, who now runs the Stand Up Foundation dedicated to stopping bullying, is raising money for his cause by stripping down to his undies. His new line of underwear from Bluebuck retails from between $32 and $38 a pair, with profits going towards the foundation. He writes on Facebook: Our next […]

Kluwe doing the radio ad against the marriage amendment. Chris Kluwe, 30, is a punter entering his eighth year with the Minnesota Vikings. He has done three radio ads for Minnesotans for Equality, opposed to a November ballot initiative in the state that would change the state constitution to define marriage only between a man […]

Amar’e Stodemire (Photo: Steve Mitchell-US PRESSWIRE) Amar'e Stoudemire of the New York Knicks was fined $50,000 by the NBA for calling a fan a "fag" on Twitter. Stoudemire had apologized for the slur and expressed his remorse after being fined: “I am a huge supporter of civil rights for all people. I am disappointed in […]