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Curlg offers a "very safe space" for gay athlet, says Bce Mouat, who creds g out to his team-mat as a fg moment his reer.

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Stland skip Bce Mouat is the world's most succsful curler 2021Curlg offers a "very safe space" for gay athlet, says Bce Mouat, who creds g out to his team-mat as a fg moment his 27-year-old St has enjoyed an credible year, skippg his rk to European gold and world also land three Grand Slam tl and beme world mixed doubl champn wh Jen Dodds.

"She was the first person I ever told that beg gay was what I was hidg om the sport and om my fay and iends, " he relled.

"She was the one who helped me realise that beg gay didn't really matter terms of a sport, 's not gog to affect how I play, but that before I had e out was affectg how I played.

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Bce Mouat talks about the prospect of wng two gold medals at next month's Wter Olympics and why g out as gay to team-mat helped him on that journey. * gay scottish curler *

Bra’s top curler headg to the 2022 Wter Olympics says his succs the sport me when he me out as gay eight years ago to a sports psychologist. “She was the one who helped me realize that beg gay didn’t really matter terms of a sport, ’s not gog to affect how I play, but that before I had e out was affectg how I played, ” Bce Mouat told the BBC.

Bce Mouat will pete the mixed doubl alongsi iend Jen Dodds, as well as the men's petn24th Wter Olympic GamHosts: Beijg, Cha Dat: 4-20 FebaryCoverage: Watch live on BBC TV, BBC iPlayer, BBC Red Button and onle; listen on BBC Rad 5 Live and BBC Sounds; live text and highlights on BBC Sport webse and appBce Mouat says tellg his team-mat he is gay "was possibly the bt thg I ever did for my reer" St has led his curlg rk on an upward curve the past few years, to the pot they head to the Wter Olympics as the world's number one ranked and mixed doubl partner Jen Dodds uld bee the first Brish athlet to w two golds at the same Wter Olympics, too, as they head to Beijg as world champns alongsi their mments the men's and women's 's rise is down to many thgs - skill, termatn, and posure are jt a few. "But after seeg how people uld live their life as a gay person enuraged me to do bee you were seeg so many people havg succs and still beg happy. The out Sttish curler, who beme the first gay man to w a Wter Olympics medal outsi of figure skatg almost a century at least year’s Gam, n now add a gold trophy to his se.

He me out as gay 2013, and says he’s flourished ever sce. Mouat, who me out as gay eight years ago, is no stranger to champnship-level petn.

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A total of 186 publicly out gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr, queer and nonbary athlet participated the Tokyo Gam, acrdg to Not only was that the most at any Olympics ever, but was also more than triple the number of LGBTQ athlet at the 2016 R Gam. Andrew Blaser will bee the first openly gay man to pete skeleton at the Olympics. Brown me out as gay durg Pri Month, June, of last year.

The 27-year-old Cizeron, who is gay, and 26-year-old Papadakis have formed a domant partnership, pturg four World Champnship tl, five European Champnship tl and seven natnal tl. LeDuc beme the first openly gay athlete to w a U.

Mouat, who is gay, had himself que the 2021. Jt like Jason Brown, Canadian ice dancer Pl Poirier also me out as gay durg Pri Month 2021. Radford and partner Meagan Duhamel skated to a first-place fish the team event, makg Radford the first openly gay man to w gold at a Wter Olympics.

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Who was the first openly gay Olympian? Amerin Robert Dover was the first openly gay athlete to pete at the Olympic Gam. Peltzer ran at the 1928 Amsterdam and 1932 Los Angel Olympics before he was arrted and imprisoned by the Nazis for his homosexualy 1935.

Atralian diver Matthew Mcham was the first openly gay athlete to w gold at the Olympics.

It wasn’t until the 2018 Gam when Team USA featured s first openly gay Wter Olympians, as figure skater Adam Rippon, ekier G Kenworthy and speed skater Brtany Bowe peted PyeongChang. Rippon earned bronze the 2018 team figure skatg petn to make him the Uned Stat’ first openly gay medalist at the Wter Gam. Mouat me out as gay eight years ago and is the only publicly out athlete petg Olympic curlg.

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Mouat, who also played the mixed doubl, is openly gay, and if you look closely at his sho, you might see rabow lac to celebrate that fact. In fact, given the choice, the team’s talisman would probably prefer wasn’t named after unassumg lear, he me out as gay to team-mat eight years ago and says had a huge impact on his curlg bee his sports psychologist ma him realise that “beg gay didn’t really matter terms of a sport, ’s not gog to affect how I play, but that before I had e out was affectg how I played” Edburgh-born skip is a three-time natnal champn, two-time European and also won a world tle mixed doubl wh Jennifer Dodds, wh whom he fished fourth the Olympic Hardie (third, vice-skip)The olst member of the rk, Hardie was a skip his own right, rerdg his first victory on the World Curlg Tour Aberen back 2017 and also ptag the Sttish mixed doubl team before jog forc wh was joed by Hammy McMillan to give the rk a distctly faial feel, and immediately brought succs, begng wh a natnal tle 2017 before gog on to ntental and ternatnal Lammy (send)Dave Leh, head of performance at Brish curlg, lls Bobby Lammy the bt sweeper the world. And he revealed that tellg teammat that he is gay was the bt thg he’s done.

But after seeg how people uld live their life as a gay person, enuraged me to do . At the summer Gam Japan, Brish diver Tom Daley told how fdg happs as a gay man his personal life had helped him to achieve his lifelong ambn of wng Olympic Gold.

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