Sophie McKna: Brish shot putter out as gay | 'I don't want to have to live my life secretly' | Athletics News | Sky Sports

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• ‘FLAMG GAY’ RAVEN SNRS WS SILVER MEDAL SHOT PUT
• ‘FLAMG GAY’ RAVEN SNRS WS SILVER MEDAL SHOT PUT
• CHAMPN SHOT PUTTER SOPHIE MCKNA OUT AS GAY AHEAD OF PARIS 2024
• SOPHIE MCKNA: BRISH SHOT PUTTER OUT AS GAY | 'I DON'T WANT TO HAVE TO LIVE MY LIFE SECRETLY'
• THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
• US SHOT PUTTER RAVEN SNRS MAK 'X' PODIUM POSE AFTER WNG SILVER BY EDDIE PELLS AND PAT GRAHAM PUBLISHED AUGT 1, 2021 OLYMPICS ASSOCIATED PRS SHARE COPY LK EMAIL FACEBOOK TWTER LKEDIN REDD ARTICLE TOKYO, JAPAN - AUGUST 01: (L-R) SILVER MEDALIST RAVEN SNRS OF TEAM UNED STAT, GOLD MEDALIST LIJIAO GONG OF TEAM CHA AND BRONZE MEDALIST VALERIE ADAMS OF TEAM NEW ZEALAND POSE WH THEIR MEDALS DURG THE MEDAL CEREMONY FOR THE WOMEN'S SHOT EXPAND TOKYO (AP) - THE "INCREDIBLE HULK" MASK SHOULD NOT FOOL ANYBODY. RAVEN SNRS HAS NOTHG TO HI. THE FACE, AND THE VOICE, OF THE TOKYO OLYMPICS, AND ALL THEY'RE ABOUT, ULD VERY WELL BE FOUND A 25-YEAR-OLD AMERIN SHOT PUTTER WHO, ON SUNDAY, ULD BE SPOTTED WEARG THE GREEN AND RED SUPERHERO FACE VERG, SPORTG THE PURPLE AND GREEN HAIR, DONNG THE NEON-BLUE SHAS AND WNG A SHY SILVER MEDAL. DURG THE PHOTO OP AT HER MEDALS CEREMONY SUNDAY NIGHT, SNRS STEPPED OFF THE PODIUM, LIFTED HER ARMS ABOVE HER HEAD AND FORMED AN "X' WH HER WRISTS. ASKED WHAT THAT MEANT, SHE EXPLAED: "IT'S THE TERSECTN OF WHERE ALL PEOPLE WHO ARE OPPRSED MEET." A MEANGFUL GTURE FOR SNRS, WHO IS OPENLY GAY, HAS NTEMPLATED SUICI, HAS SEEN POVERTY AND PRSN RAVAGE HER BLACK MUNY AND OTHERS LIKE . SHE HAS OFTEN WONRED IF THE OLYMPICS, WHICH MAKE A GRAND POT OF CELEBRATG DIVERSY BUT OFTEN STGGL TO LIVE UP TO THAT MISSN, HAVE A SPOT FOR A PERSON LIKE HER. SHE HAS CID TO CLAIM HER PLACE EHER WAY. AND A SPACE WHERE SIMONE BIL, NAOMI OSAKA AND OTHER, BETTER-KNOWN OLYMPIANS, HAVE BEEN SPEAKG THEIR TTH, SNRS IS MORE THAN WILLG TO SHARE HERS, TOO. "TO BE ME. TO NOT APOLOGIZE," SHE SAID A WI-RANGG NVERSATN AFTER HER SEND-PLACE FISH, WHEN ASKED WHAT HER ULTIMATE MISSN IS. "TO SHOW YOUNGER PEOPLE THAT NO MATTER HOW MANY BOX THEY TRY TO F YOU , YOU N BE YOU AND YOU N ACCEPT . PEOPLE TRIED TO TELL ME NOT TO DO TATTOOS AND PIERCGS AND ALL THAT. BUT LOOK AT ME NOW, AND I’M POPP’." RELATED: SIMONE BIL WHDREW OM OLYMPICS GYMNASTICS FAL TO PROTECT TEAM, SELF THE HULK MASK THAT SNRS STARTED WEARG NOT SO LONG AGO HAS S ROOTS MANY THGS. NAMELY, IS A REMR THAT A WOMAN WHO HAS BENCH PRSED 480 POUNDS AND SQUATTED 700 POUNDS AND WON FOUR NCAA TL IS BOUND TO LOOK TOUGH ON THE OUTSI, BUT MIGHT BE VERY DIFFERENT SI. EVEN THOUGH SHE HAD ALREADY BEEN TO THE OLYMPICS R JANEIRO, AND WAS THE MIDST OF A REER ON AN UPWARD TRACK, SNRS SAID AN INSTAGRAM POST THAT ON JAN. 26, 2018, SHE WAS ON HER WAY TO "RRYG (OUT) AN ATTEMPT TO END MY LIFE." "IF NOT FOR SENDG A TEXT TO AN OLD THERAPIST I WOULD NOT BE HERE (RIGHT NOW)," SHE SAID. "ALL THE THGS WEIGHG ON ME FOR 22 YEARS, I WAS FALLY ABLE TO PROCS . I WAS FALLY ABLE TO SEPARATE RAVEN OM ‘THE HULK.’" SNRS IS ONE OF AROUND 180 OUT LGBTQ ATHLET PETG AT THE TOKYO OLYMPICS, ACRDG TO THE WEBSE OUTSPORTS, WHICH TIMAT THAT'S MORE THAN TRIPLE THE NUMBER WHO PETED BRAZIL FIVE YEARS AGO. SHE RECENTLY TOLD THE WEBSE SHE ME OUT TO HER MOM THIRD GRA. SHE WAS OUTED TO CLASSMAT SIXTH GRA, AND NTH GRA, SHE FALLY STARTED BEG FORTABLE WH WHO SHE WAS. BY THE TIME SHE GOT TO LLEGE, SNRS WAS OUT. IT WAS NEVER AN EASY ROAD. "I FEEL LIKE THE ATMOSPHERE AROUND A LOT OF THGS, PECIALLY WHEN YOU’RE DOG SO WELL, IS ‘WELL, YOU HAVE EVERYTHG GOG FOR YOU SO YOU DON’T HAVE ANYTHG TO WORRY ABOUT,'" SNRS SAID. "WHEREAS FOR ME, WAS LIKE A WHIRLWD." SHE ED HER PLATFORM SUNDAY TO TALK ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH, PECIALLY THE BLACK MUNY, WHERE SHE SAW PRSN AND OTHER SYMPTOMS GO UNTREATED AND UNSPOKEN ABOUT FOR YEARS. "THE CRAZY HOE," IS WHAT SHE SAID SOME HOM WERE LLED THE BLACK MUNY WHERE THE SYMPTOMS WERE SEEN BUT NOT CHECKED. AMERINS TO WATCH AT THE TOKYO OLYMPICS THIS YEAR’S AMERIN OLYMPIC TEAM, PRISED OF FAIAR FAC AND SOME NEWERS, WILL TRY TO ADD TO TEAM USA’S IMPRSIVE AND WORLD-LEADG MEDAL UNT. RELATED: AMID CHAOTIC WATERS TOKYO, AT THIS TIME 2012 PHELPS BROKE OLYMPIC WORLD RERD SHE SAID THE DAYS, SOME OF HER IENDS AND CLASSMAT SEE THERAPISTS, WHERE THEY WOULDN'T HAVE DONE THAT A FEW YEARS AGO. "IT’S OK TO NEED PEOPLE, AND I FEEL LIKE OUR MUNY, A LOT OF TIM THROUGH HISTORY, WE HAVEN’T HAD ACCS TO THE ROURC TO BE ABLE TO DO THAT," SHE SAID. AMONG THOSE SNRS HAS LEANED ON RECENTLY ARE GWEN BERRY, THE OUTSPOKEN HAMMER THROWER WH WHOM SHE CROSSED PATHS DURG HER TIME AT THE UNIVERSY OF MISSISSIPPI. "RAVEN HAS BEEN THROUGH HELL AND BACK," BERRY SAID AFTER ADVANCG TO THE FALS HER OWN PETN. "I’M SO HAPPY TO SEE HER THRIVE AND W. I’LL TELL YOU A LTLE SECRET, ABOUT TWO MONTHS AGO SHE LLED ME ON THE PHONE CRYG. SHE’S BEEN THROUGH A LOT. SO I’M HAPPY FOR HER." ALL THE STGGL ARE NOT NEARLY AS GHT TODAY AS THEY WERE FIVE, OR THREE, OR EVEN ONE YEAR AGO. MENTAL HEALTH HAS BEEN THE PRIME TOPIC OF THE OLYMPICS, AND ALONG WH HER SPOT ON THE PODIUM, SNRS SEEMS MORE THAN READY TO STAKE HER CLAIM THE HEART OF THIS NVERSATN. THE MORE SHE'S OUT THERE, THE MORE SHE'S FDG THAT SHE IS NOT ALONE. "I REALLY THK MY GENERATN REALLY DON’T RE," SNRS SAID. "SHOUT OUT TO ALL MY BLACK PEOPLE, SHOUT OUT TO ALL MY LBGTQ MUNY, SHOUT OUT TO EVERYBODY ALG WH MENTAL HEALTH. BEE AT THE END OF THE DAY, WE UNRSTAND THAT ’S BIGGER THAN , AND ’S BIGGER THAN THE POWERS THAT BE." BREAKING NEWS
• SOPHIE MCKNA: BRISH SHOT PUTTER OUT AS GAY | ‘I DON’T WANT TO HAVE TO LIVE MY LIFE SECRETLY’ | ATHLETICS NEWS
• SOPHIE MCKNA: BRISH SHOT PUTTER OUT AS GAY |

‘FLAMG GAY’ RAVEN SNRS WS SILVER MEDAL SHOT PUT

But Snrs, who is om South Carola and went to Ole Miss, don’t shy om her battl wh mental health as a woman movg to Mississippi who was “young, black and gay” and me “probably about 10 or 15 mut om tryg to end my life, ” before she got the help she need. -Signed a Flamg Gay, ” she posted on Twter this week.

‘FLAMG GAY’ RAVEN SNRS WS SILVER MEDAL SHOT PUT

Natnal champn shot putter Sophie McKna, takg the step to e out publicly as gay has been a key piece her own journey, layg the groundwork for next summer’s Paris Gam. ’ I don’t want to bee, ‘Gay shot putter do this; gay shot putter do that’.

Brish shot putter Sophie McKna has e out as gay, sayg now's the right time to speak publicly about her sexualy as she prepar for the 2024 Paris Olympics. Brish Olympic shot putter Sophie McKna has e out as gay, sayg now's the right time to speak publicly about her sexualy as she prepar for the 2024 Paris Olympics.

McKna is now the only openly gay current Team GB track and field athlete. "Part of me is of the mdset, 'I don't want this to overshadow my sportg reer', I don't want to bee 'gay shot putter do this', 'gay shot putter do that'. Sophie McKna is the only openly gay track and field Brish athlete followg the retirement of race walker Tom Bosworth last year "I still want to be Sophie.

CHAMPN SHOT PUTTER SOPHIE MCKNA OUT AS GAY AHEAD OF PARIS 2024

Brish Olympic shot putter Sophie McKna has e out as gay, sayg now is the right time to speak publicly about her sexualy as she prepar for the 2024 Paris Olympics.

SOPHIE MCKNA: BRISH SHOT PUTTER OUT AS GAY | 'I DON'T WANT TO HAVE TO LIVE MY LIFE SECRETLY'

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THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985

" A meangful gture for Snrs, who is openly gay, has ntemplated suici, has seen poverty and prsn ravage her Black muny and others like . Brish shot putter Sophie McKna has e out as gay, sayg now’s the right time to speak publicly about her sexualy as she prepar for the 2024 Paris Olympics. Brish Olympic shot putter Sophie McKna has e out as gay, sayg now’s the right time to speak publicly about her sexualy as she prepar for the 2024 Paris Olympics.

US SHOT PUTTER RAVEN SNRS MAK 'X' PODIUM POSE AFTER WNG SILVER BY EDDIE PELLS AND PAT GRAHAM PUBLISHED AUGT 1, 2021 OLYMPICS ASSOCIATED PRS SHARE COPY LK EMAIL FACEBOOK TWTER LKEDIN REDD ARTICLE TOKYO, JAPAN - AUGUST 01: (L-R) SILVER MEDALIST RAVEN SNRS OF TEAM UNED STAT, GOLD MEDALIST LIJIAO GONG OF TEAM CHA AND BRONZE MEDALIST VALERIE ADAMS OF TEAM NEW ZEALAND POSE WH THEIR MEDALS DURG THE MEDAL CEREMONY FOR THE WOMEN'S SHOT EXPAND TOKYO (AP) - THE "INCREDIBLE HULK" MASK SHOULD NOT FOOL ANYBODY. RAVEN SNRS HAS NOTHG TO HI. THE FACE, AND THE VOICE, OF THE TOKYO OLYMPICS, AND ALL THEY'RE ABOUT, ULD VERY WELL BE FOUND A 25-YEAR-OLD AMERIN SHOT PUTTER WHO, ON SUNDAY, ULD BE SPOTTED WEARG THE GREEN AND RED SUPERHERO FACE VERG, SPORTG THE PURPLE AND GREEN HAIR, DONNG THE NEON-BLUE SHAS AND WNG A SHY SILVER MEDAL. DURG THE PHOTO OP AT HER MEDALS CEREMONY SUNDAY NIGHT, SNRS STEPPED OFF THE PODIUM, LIFTED HER ARMS ABOVE HER HEAD AND FORMED AN "X' WH HER WRISTS. ASKED WHAT THAT MEANT, SHE EXPLAED: "IT'S THE TERSECTN OF WHERE ALL PEOPLE WHO ARE OPPRSED MEET." A MEANGFUL GTURE FOR SNRS, WHO IS OPENLY GAY, HAS NTEMPLATED SUICI, HAS SEEN POVERTY AND PRSN RAVAGE HER BLACK MUNY AND OTHERS LIKE . SHE HAS OFTEN WONRED IF THE OLYMPICS, WHICH MAKE A GRAND POT OF CELEBRATG DIVERSY BUT OFTEN STGGL TO LIVE UP TO THAT MISSN, HAVE A SPOT FOR A PERSON LIKE HER. SHE HAS CID TO CLAIM HER PLACE EHER WAY. AND A SPACE WHERE SIMONE BIL, NAOMI OSAKA AND OTHER, BETTER-KNOWN OLYMPIANS, HAVE BEEN SPEAKG THEIR TTH, SNRS IS MORE THAN WILLG TO SHARE HERS, TOO. "TO BE ME. TO NOT APOLOGIZE," SHE SAID A WI-RANGG NVERSATN AFTER HER SEND-PLACE FISH, WHEN ASKED WHAT HER ULTIMATE MISSN IS. "TO SHOW YOUNGER PEOPLE THAT NO MATTER HOW MANY BOX THEY TRY TO F YOU , YOU N BE YOU AND YOU N ACCEPT . PEOPLE TRIED TO TELL ME NOT TO DO TATTOOS AND PIERCGS AND ALL THAT. BUT LOOK AT ME NOW, AND I’M POPP’." RELATED: SIMONE BIL WHDREW OM OLYMPICS GYMNASTICS FAL TO PROTECT TEAM, SELF THE HULK MASK THAT SNRS STARTED WEARG NOT SO LONG AGO HAS S ROOTS MANY THGS. NAMELY, IS A REMR THAT A WOMAN WHO HAS BENCH PRSED 480 POUNDS AND SQUATTED 700 POUNDS AND WON FOUR NCAA TL IS BOUND TO LOOK TOUGH ON THE OUTSI, BUT MIGHT BE VERY DIFFERENT SI. EVEN THOUGH SHE HAD ALREADY BEEN TO THE OLYMPICS R JANEIRO, AND WAS THE MIDST OF A REER ON AN UPWARD TRACK, SNRS SAID AN INSTAGRAM POST THAT ON JAN. 26, 2018, SHE WAS ON HER WAY TO "RRYG (OUT) AN ATTEMPT TO END MY LIFE." "IF NOT FOR SENDG A TEXT TO AN OLD THERAPIST I WOULD NOT BE HERE (RIGHT NOW)," SHE SAID. "ALL THE THGS WEIGHG ON ME FOR 22 YEARS, I WAS FALLY ABLE TO PROCS . I WAS FALLY ABLE TO SEPARATE RAVEN OM ‘THE HULK.’" SNRS IS ONE OF AROUND 180 OUT LGBTQ ATHLET PETG AT THE TOKYO OLYMPICS, ACRDG TO THE WEBSE OUTSPORTS, WHICH TIMAT THAT'S MORE THAN TRIPLE THE NUMBER WHO PETED BRAZIL FIVE YEARS AGO. SHE RECENTLY TOLD THE WEBSE SHE ME OUT TO HER MOM THIRD GRA. SHE WAS OUTED TO CLASSMAT SIXTH GRA, AND NTH GRA, SHE FALLY STARTED BEG FORTABLE WH WHO SHE WAS. BY THE TIME SHE GOT TO LLEGE, SNRS WAS OUT. IT WAS NEVER AN EASY ROAD. "I FEEL LIKE THE ATMOSPHERE AROUND A LOT OF THGS, PECIALLY WHEN YOU’RE DOG SO WELL, IS ‘WELL, YOU HAVE EVERYTHG GOG FOR YOU SO YOU DON’T HAVE ANYTHG TO WORRY ABOUT,'" SNRS SAID. "WHEREAS FOR ME, WAS LIKE A WHIRLWD." SHE ED HER PLATFORM SUNDAY TO TALK ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH, PECIALLY THE BLACK MUNY, WHERE SHE SAW PRSN AND OTHER SYMPTOMS GO UNTREATED AND UNSPOKEN ABOUT FOR YEARS. "THE CRAZY HOE," IS WHAT SHE SAID SOME HOM WERE LLED THE BLACK MUNY WHERE THE SYMPTOMS WERE SEEN BUT NOT CHECKED. AMERINS TO WATCH AT THE TOKYO OLYMPICS THIS YEAR’S AMERIN OLYMPIC TEAM, PRISED OF FAIAR FAC AND SOME NEWERS, WILL TRY TO ADD TO TEAM USA’S IMPRSIVE AND WORLD-LEADG MEDAL UNT. RELATED: AMID CHAOTIC WATERS TOKYO, AT THIS TIME 2012 PHELPS BROKE OLYMPIC WORLD RERD SHE SAID THE DAYS, SOME OF HER IENDS AND CLASSMAT SEE THERAPISTS, WHERE THEY WOULDN'T HAVE DONE THAT A FEW YEARS AGO. "IT’S OK TO NEED PEOPLE, AND I FEEL LIKE OUR MUNY, A LOT OF TIM THROUGH HISTORY, WE HAVEN’T HAD ACCS TO THE ROURC TO BE ABLE TO DO THAT," SHE SAID. AMONG THOSE SNRS HAS LEANED ON RECENTLY ARE GWEN BERRY, THE OUTSPOKEN HAMMER THROWER WH WHOM SHE CROSSED PATHS DURG HER TIME AT THE UNIVERSY OF MISSISSIPPI. "RAVEN HAS BEEN THROUGH HELL AND BACK," BERRY SAID AFTER ADVANCG TO THE FALS HER OWN PETN. "I’M SO HAPPY TO SEE HER THRIVE AND W. I’LL TELL YOU A LTLE SECRET, ABOUT TWO MONTHS AGO SHE LLED ME ON THE PHONE CRYG. SHE’S BEEN THROUGH A LOT. SO I’M HAPPY FOR HER." ALL THE STGGL ARE NOT NEARLY AS GHT TODAY AS THEY WERE FIVE, OR THREE, OR EVEN ONE YEAR AGO. MENTAL HEALTH HAS BEEN THE PRIME TOPIC OF THE OLYMPICS, AND ALONG WH HER SPOT ON THE PODIUM, SNRS SEEMS MORE THAN READY TO STAKE HER CLAIM THE HEART OF THIS NVERSATN. THE MORE SHE'S OUT THERE, THE MORE SHE'S FDG THAT SHE IS NOT ALONE. "I REALLY THK MY GENERATN REALLY DON’T RE," SNRS SAID. "SHOUT OUT TO ALL MY BLACK PEOPLE, SHOUT OUT TO ALL MY LBGTQ MUNY, SHOUT OUT TO EVERYBODY ALG WH MENTAL HEALTH. BEE AT THE END OF THE DAY, WE UNRSTAND THAT ’S BIGGER THAN , AND ’S BIGGER THAN THE POWERS THAT BE." BREAKING NEWS

“Part of me is of the mdset, ‘I don’t want this to overshadow my sportg reer’, I don’t want to bee ‘gay shot putter do this’, ‘gay shot putter do that’.

Sophie McKna is the only openly gay track and field Brish athlete followg the retirement of race walker Tom Bosworth last year.

SOPHIE MCKNA: BRISH SHOT PUTTER OUT AS GAY | ‘I DON’T WANT TO HAVE TO LIVE MY LIFE SECRETLY’ | ATHLETICS NEWS

There's the gay muny, there's LGBT, there's LGBTQ... Gay men date other men regardls (for the most part) of their eye lor. It was not a secret that the two girls were a uple - they started datg Hillman's sophomore year.

She even me out to her sophomore roommate, who had clared jt days earlier that homosexualy was wrong. Sophie McKna: Brish shot putter out as gay | - World News Gu.

SOPHIE MCKNA: BRISH SHOT PUTTER OUT AS GAY |

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