Former Olympic swimmer Mark Foster out as gay - Outsports

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• SWIMMER MARK FOSTER: 'THE REACTN TO G OUT AS GAY HAS BEEN BRILLIANT. AND I DO HAVE SOMEONE MY LIFE.'
• MARK FOSTER: FORMER SWIMMER AND OLYMPIAN SAYS 'NOW IS THE TIME' AS HE REVEALS HE IS GAY
• FORMER OLYMPIC SWIMMER MARK FOSTER OUT AS GAY
• EX-OLYMPIC SWIMMER MARK FOSTER OUT AS GAY

SWIMMER MARK FOSTER: 'THE REACTN TO G OUT AS GAY HAS BEEN BRILLIANT. AND I DO HAVE SOMEONE MY LIFE.'

Thursday 30 November at 4:13pmMARK FOSTER TALKS ON TV FOR THE FIRST TIME ABOUT HIS DECISION TO COME OUT AS GAYSwimmer Mark spoke exclively to about why he has cid to publicly e out recently.

'Talkg about why he didn't feel fortable talkg about his sexualy before now, Mark explaed: 'Gog back to when I was a kid, beg gay was wrong. 'Mark also explaed that a difficult year also played a part his cisn to talk about beg gay for the first time, pecially sce losg his dad the summer.

MARK FOSTER: FORMER SWIMMER AND OLYMPIAN SAYS 'NOW IS THE TIME' AS HE REVEALS HE IS GAY

Sign up to our ee sport newsletter for all the latt news on everythg om cyclg to boxgSign up to our ee sport email for all the latt newsThe former Olympic swimmer Mark Foster has e out as gay an terview wh The Guardian, clarg: “I tiptoed around the shadows for so long, but now is the time to e out” is a former world champn and has reprented Great Bra at five Olympic Gam. And I’m not the first gay sportsman to e out. “There was that stuff about Becky [Adlgton] but she knows I’m gay and knows my other half.

I’m gay. ’”Stonewall is currently nng s Rabow Lac mpaign (Getty)Foster also says that he unrstands why football players are hant to e out as gay.

“I unrstand what’s stoppg gay footballers g out, ” Foster says. But if a gay footballer me out would change so many attus. He me out as gay 2017 and has not been married till now.

FORMER OLYMPIC SWIMMER MARK FOSTER OUT AS GAY

However, was later revealed that she was not his partner after he me out gay 2017.

After Col me out as gay Augt 2017, people quickly assumed that the two were a romantic relatnship durg their time together. Is Mark Foster Gay? Mark Foster me out as gay  December 2017.

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EX-OLYMPIC SWIMMER MARK FOSTER OUT AS GAY

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