Swimming

“I was kicked off the Stanford swim team,” the NCAA championship swimmer wrote. “I can tell you with certainty that it comes down to the fact that I am gay.”

“People in China don’t know about the games, and this is the first time there has been a direct link between the games and China.”

London’s Transgender And Gender-Nonconforming Swimming group is taking the fear out of swimming.

Rachele Bruni, Italy’s only out LGBTQ Olympian publicly thanked her “beloved,” and told reporters that was her girlfriend.

Thorpe is credited with inspiring superstar Michael Phelps to become the swimmer he is today, and opening doors for other gay athletes.

Speedos apparently don’t mix well with NBC’s graphics.

“Having the words ‘gay and lesbian’ over my butt is my way of announcing my queerness for the swimming world to see.”

It’s a reversal of fortune for Britain’s gay champion diver, who was given prominent coverage over his straight swimming partner.

The Harvard freshman was recruited to swim on the school’s women’s team. But next season, he’ll swim for the men’s team after his transition, becoming the first openly transgender collegiate swimmer in U.S. history.

Australian Olympic swimming champion Ian Thorpe comes out as gay in a television interview airing Sunday evening in Australia, reports the Daily Telegraph. Thorpe’s announcement follows more than a decade of denials — the first of which came just as his career skyrocketed at the Sydney 2000 Olympics, when he was just 15.