"No one knows how many gay athletes participated in the Beijing Olympics—though, if the proportion of gay Olympians follows the percentages of gay people in the general population, there must have been hundreds of them. That said, there were only 11 known out LGBT athletes—and only one of them was a man. And yet this tiny group received an astonishing seven medals!" - l.k. regan
On a sad note, NBC was intent on showing the family, spouses and even dates of athletes but quite pointedly declined to show or mention the boyfriend of Matthew Mitchan despite Matt crediting Lachlan with the support he needed to reenter the sport last year and train so well that he came from nowhere to take the Gold. What cowards US media can be.
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