I 'knew' Ian Thorpe was gay back 2004 - Outsports

Contents:

• THE GAY VERSN OF SI'S SWIMSU ISSUE
• GAY SWIMMER CATALYST FOR EXCG NEW ATRALIAN DRAMA – BARRACUDA
• I 'KNEW' IAN THORPE WAS GAY BACK 2004
• ATRALIAN SWIMMER IAN THORPE COM OUT AS GAY
• GAY OLYMPICS SWIMMER MAK WAV AND OUT OF THE WATER
• OLYMPIC SWIMMER MARK THORMEYER PERFORMED AT HIS PEAK AFTER G OUT AS GAY
• EX-OLYMPIC SWIMMER MARK FOSTER OUT AS GAY
• FAMEWATCHER SEARCH PRIMARY MENU SKIP TO NTENT HOMECELEBRY HAIR TRANSPLANTCELEBRY PLASTIC SURGERYCELEBRY LEATHER JACKETBODY SHAPER SEARCH FOR: GAY MALE ATHLET, HOT MALE SWIMMERS, SWIMWEAR FOR MENGAY SWIMMERS LIST: OLYMPIANS AND COLLEGE STARS
• A BRIEF HISTORY OF OPENLY GAY OLYMPIANS

THE GAY VERSN OF SI'S SWIMSU ISSUE

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GAY SWIMMER CATALYST FOR EXCG NEW ATRALIAN DRAMA – BARRACUDA

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I 'KNEW' IAN THORPE WAS GAY BACK 2004

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ATRALIAN SWIMMER IAN THORPE COM OUT AS GAY

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GAY OLYMPICS SWIMMER MAK WAV AND OUT OF THE WATER

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I first "knew" that Ian Thorpe was gay back 2004 at a pool Long Beach, Calif. The one exceptn was Thorpe, of whom gay mors had been swirlg sce he beme an OIympic champn at the 2000 Summer Gam Sydney. "My prumptn was that he was gay, " Brent said, "and was like he knew that I knew and that sense he felt exposed.

I had observed all this over the two days we were there and that's when I "knew" Thorpe was gay. I uld not prove a urt of law, but I knew the way we gays often know about certa people. At the 2012 London Olympics, Thorpe admted that his terts fashn, among others, ma him see why he "ticked the box" on what a gay man is terted .

OLYMPIC SWIMMER MARK THORMEYER PERFORMED AT HIS PEAK AFTER G OUT AS GAY

Fally, his tobgraphy two years ago, Thorpe tegorilly me out as straight, sayg, "For the rerd, I am not gay and all my sexual experienc have been straight. " It was all not te, of urse, as we disvered Sunday when Thorpe told Michael Parkson that he is gay. "I'm fortable sayg I'm a gay man, and I don't want young people to feel the same way I did, " he said, addg that he wished he had e out revealed earlier this year that he has checked himself to rehab for alholism and prsn.

EX-OLYMPIC SWIMMER MARK FOSTER OUT AS GAY

Closeted people njure up all sorts of reactns om other gay people. " On the other hand, this ment on Outsports reflects another pot of view: "We are so supposed to five them for years of lyg bee gay = shame.... Thorpe did not risk the same level of physil abe as gay people livg other parts of the world and his sport would have easily accepted him, as his fay did.

There's also the matter of what appears to be a quid-pro-quo between Thorpe and Channel Ten, the Atralian TV work where he revealed he was gay Sunday. Atralian swimmer and five-time Olympic gold medalist Ian Thorpe announced he was gay this weekend after years of nials, a tell-terview that aired Atralia Sunday night.

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“I’m fortable sayg I’m a gay man, ” he told Brish terviewer Michael Parkson on Atralia’s Channel Ten, the ABC reports. You n grow up, you n be fortable and you n be gay. ” Thorpe, whose swimmg succs earned him the nickname “the Thorpedo, ” had earlier nied beg gay his 2012 tobgraphy.

“For the rerd, I am not gay and all my sexual experienc have been straight, ” he wrote.

” “A part of me didn’t know if Atralia wanted s champn to be gay, ” Thorpe said, The Guardian reports. In May, the openly gay Fnish swimmer won the 50-meter etyle at the European champnships, ls than three months before he is set to swim the same race, along wh the 100-meter etyle, Tokyo. But was jt before the 2014 Wter Olympics Sochi, Rsia, (where they obvly don’t have swimmg) where the 6-10 Fn ma his biggt splash, when he me out as gay.

A BRIEF HISTORY OF OPENLY GAY OLYMPIANS

“I wanted to jo the discsn relatn to Sochi, sce is a sad fact that the Rsian gay law affects negatively Rsian young people’s liv and g human rights general, he told the Fnish Natnal TV Channel YLE’s “Sports Weekend” show at the time. In April 2010 Kowalski announced that he is gay.