Olympics

The gay former Stanford gymnast competes later this week at Pro Gymnastics Challenge in Pennsylvania

The couple now works with Freedom To Marry to win, well, the freedom to marry

Gold-medal Olympic divers will be judge and trainer on the new reality show

The Kiwi Olympian hopes photos reveal his training and determination and drive some new-found fans

Team tries to explain their poor performance in London

Atmosphere and laws in Russia represent potential problems for gay athletes

Check out Outsports’ complete 2012 Olympics coverage as we partner with SB Nation. Cyd, Jim, Patricia Nell Warren and Ryan Quinn will provide stories and commentary on the London Games, with an emphasis on LGBT athletes. Plus, we will have photo galleries of each day’s best images. OUTSPORTS 2012 OLYMPICS BLOG Check out Outsports’ complete […]

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. […]

Trey Hardee Top medal hopefuls from the U.S. Olympic team were on hand in Dallas this weekend for a media meet-and-greet. US PRESSWIRE sent photographers to get some terrific portraits of some of the athletes. The male Olympians there were swimmers Michael Phelps and Alex Meyer, sprinter Wallace Spearmon, taekwondo's Steven Lopez, fencer Alexander Massiaias, […]

Two men associated with gay sports are among the 7,300 torch bearers selected to carry the Olympic torch throughout Britain in the run-up to the the Summer Games. Tim Sullivan, chairman of London’s gay rugby team King’s Cross Steelers, and Chris Basiurski, who heads the Gay Football Supporters’ Network, will be among those carrying the […]

From PinkPaper.com: Organizers behind both the Olympic and Paralympic Games are appealing to the gay community for volunteers. Officials behind the London 2012 Games are launching their volunteer recruitment campaign today in the hope to sign-up 70,000 helpers who will make the event happen. From PinkPaper.com: Organizers behind both the Olympic and Paralympic Games are […]

Interesting story out of Ireland featuring a sprinter who won gold at the 2008 Paralympics and is how hoping to become the first person to compete in the Olympics and the Paralympics in the same year. Jason Smyth is training with Tyson Gay, and his times put him right in the mix. Smyth said the […]

Figure skater Johnny Weir leaves every hint that's he's gay as Christmas, but he isn't publicly saying the words just yet.

As we did for the 2008 Games, Outsports will have a separate Winter Olympics blog for the duration of the Vancouver Games. Already up is a terrific men's skating preview by former elite skater Chad Conley, a discussion of the lack of buzz of the Games and a piece on the nude hockey sculpture. We […]

The International Olympic Committee, meeting in Copenhagen, awarded the 2016 Summer Olympics to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, beating out Madrid, Tokyo and Chicago. The Chicago loss — the city was eliminated in the first round — was a bit of a stunner since it was the pre-choice betting favorite. The choice of Rio makes a […]

Logan Campbell, a New Zealand taekwondo athlete, figures he needs to raise $300,000 to compete in the 2012 Olympics, so he’s opened a brothel with his 20-year-old business partner. “When people think of a pimp they think of a guy standing around on a street corner with gold chains,” he told the Sunday Star Times. […]

More signs that the Beijing Olympics may be among the strangest ever held, in a cultural sense: Chinese authorities have ordered the hot Beijing gay club Destination to shut its dance floor until further notice, in another sign of a crackdown prior to the Aug. 8 start of the Olympics. More signs that the Beijing […]

The personal stories are always the most compelling aspect of the Olympics. Well, that and hot jocks stuffed into outfits that show off their muscled assets. But stick with me, here. With the Beijing Games a month away, the dramatic stories of sacrifice, training for years in obscurity and personal commitment to sport are surfacing. […]

“Carbon footprint” is a big buzzword among people concerned about global warming. It measures the “impact human activities have on the environment in terms of the amount of green house gases produced, measured in units of carbon dioxide.” The goal is to have as small a carbon footprint as possible. Using these measures, the Olympic […]

Whatever one’s opinion is on protesting the Olympic torch run to criticize China’s human rights policies, it is clear that the protesters have won. I am watching live CNN’s coverage of the event, which would more accurately be titled the Olympic Torch Evasion. Viewers saw more pictures of buses, warehouses and boats in San Francisco […]