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• BELOVED GAY OLYMPIC ATHLETE SIMON DUNN HAS DIED AT 35
• 'LOVED, ADORED AND RPECTED': OPENLY GAY ATHLETE DI AGED 35
• ‘LOVED, ADORED AND RPECTED’: TRIBUT FLOW AFTER ATH OF FIRST OUT GAY BOBSLEIGH ATHLETE
• ‘LOVED, ADORED AND RPECTED’: TRIBUT FLOW AFTER ATH OF FIRST OUT GAY BOBSLEIGH ATHLETE
• ATRALIAN BOBSLEDR SIMON DUNN IS GAY GBY PLAYER
• GAY LOOKS TO SET PACE ON ICE AT BOBSLED CHAMPNSHIPS
• COMMUNY MOURNS SIMON DUNN, FIRST OUT GAY BOBSLEIGH ATHLETE, AD AT 35
• ‘LOVED, ADORED AND RPECTED’: TRIBUT FLOW AFTER ATH OF FIRST OUT GAY BOBSLEIGH ATHLETE
• ‘LOVED, ADORED AND RPECTED’: TRIBUT FLOW AFTER ATH OF FIRST OUT GAY BOBSLEIGH ATHLETE
• SIMON DUNN AD AT 35: TRIBUT PAID TO LOVED STAR WHO BEME FIRST OPENLY GAY MAN TO REPRENT ATRALIA BOBSLEDR
• COOL RUNNGS: DG CHEAT TYSON GAY TO BEE BOBSLEIGH ATHLETE
• ATRALIAN BOBSLEDR SIMON DUNN IS GAY GBY PLAYER
• COMMUNY MOURNS SIMON DUNN, FIRST OUT GAY BOBSLEIGH ATHLETE, AD AT 35
• GAY BOBSLEDR VOTED HOTTT MAN WORLD BY BRISH MAGAZE
• ‘LOVED, ADORED AND RPECTED’: TRIBUT FLOW AFTER ATH OF FIRST OUT GAY BOBSLEIGH ATHLETE

BELOVED GAY OLYMPIC ATHLETE SIMON DUNN HAS DIED AT 35

Simon Dunn, Atralia’s first out gay bobsledr, has died at 35. He was the first out gay person any untry to pete Olympic bobsleddg.

In October, Dunn, who beme known for speakg out agast homophobia sports, posted on Instagram that he had parted ways wh his partner of five years and that had been “a rough year of personal loss.

The gay gby player and bobsledr posted this photo on Facebook a few days before he passed.

'LOVED, ADORED AND RPECTED': OPENLY GAY ATHLETE DI AGED 35

#SimonDunn #gaynews.

#MentalHealthMatters #MensMentalHealth — Darren Lacey (He/Him/Homo AF) (@dazlarrr) January 23, 2023. He’s the perfect example of a morn gay Republin.

‘LOVED, ADORED AND RPECTED’: TRIBUT FLOW AFTER ATH OF FIRST OUT GAY BOBSLEIGH ATHLETE

Athlet and chari have paid tribute to an openly gay Atralian Olympian who has died aged Dunn, was the first openly gay man to reprent any untry the sport of bobsleigh and also played for Sydney's gay gby unn club, the Sydney Convicts.

"Simon was well known for his sports achievements, beg the first openly gay male to reprent Atralia bobsleigh at the was a ver star of multiple gay magaz. "He was a passnate advote for LGBTQIA+ reprentatn sport, speakg about his experienc of homophobia his younger years. "Figure skater Eric Radford, another gay Olympian, wrote: "Rt In Peace Simon.

‘LOVED, ADORED AND RPECTED’: TRIBUT FLOW AFTER ATH OF FIRST OUT GAY BOBSLEIGH ATHLETE

"Sign up here to receive our daily newsletters and breakg news alerts, sent straight to your first openly gay man to reprent any untry the sport of bobsleigh, Simon Dunn was found ad at home. ‘Loved, adored and rpected’: Tribut flow after ath of first out gay bobsleigh athleteSimon Dunn, the first openly gay man to reprent any untry the sport of bobsleigh, has been remembered as a kd and genero athlete and muny lear after his ath at 35 years sports star was well known for his succs bobsleigh and played wh Sydney’s gay and clive gby unn club, the Sydney Convicts, for more than 10 years. “Simon was passnate about givg back to the muny and volunteerg, he gave his time and [ed] his profile to help multiple chari, ” the statement Dunn, wh former L Girls performer Kathere Wolfgramme, preparg for a gay pri cise September Peter RaeThe Bobby Goldsmh Foundatn, an HIV support chary for which Dunn was an ambassador, scribed him as a “selfls, passnate and kd dividual who treated everyone equally, stood up for margalised and vulnerable people and lled out jtice”.

ATRALIAN BOBSLEDR SIMON DUNN IS GAY GBY PLAYER

“He was a passnate advote for LGBTQIA+ reprentatn sport, speakg about his experienc of homophobia his younger years, ” the group’s statement said. I will cherish the betiful moments we spent together, ” he said on was voted the “world’s hottt man” by Attu magaze 2015, and wrote lumns for var LGBTQIA+ publitns around the grew up playg gby but “when I first me out, I tried to f to the ‘normal’ gay image: I gave up sport, ” he told the Star Observer moved to Calgary Canada, where he pursued bobsleigh later returned home to Sydney and joed gay gby unn team the Convicts. Simon Dunn, the first openly gay man to reprent any untry the sport of bobsleigh, has been remembered as a kd and genero athlete and … - Anthony Segaert • 182dRead more on.

GAY LOOKS TO SET PACE ON ICE AT BOBSLED CHAMPNSHIPS

Atralian bobsledr and Olympic hopeful Simon Dunn has e out publicly an terview wh SameSame, a gay Atralian publitn. Dunn has been a player on the Sydney Convicts gay gby team that this summer hosted the Bgham Cup.

And I'm also proud of the fact that I'm the first out gay man the sport to do so! File photograph of Tyson Gay om the U. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson (Rters) - Former world 100 meters champn Tyson Gay has trad the track for ice this week after he entered to pete the U.

COMMUNY MOURNS SIMON DUNN, FIRST OUT GAY BOBSLEIGH ATHLETE, AD AT 35

Simon Dunn, the first openly gay man to reprent any untry the sport of bobsleigh, has been remembered as a kd and genero athlete and muny lear after his ath at 35 years old. The sports star was well known for his succs bobsleigh and played wh Sydney’s gay and clive gby unn club, the Sydney Convicts, for more than 10 years.

‘LOVED, ADORED AND RPECTED’: TRIBUT FLOW AFTER ATH OF FIRST OUT GAY BOBSLEIGH ATHLETE

Simon Dunn, wh former L Girls performer Kathere Wolfgramme, preparg for a gay pri cise September Rae. Tyson Gay is the latt Uned Stat athlete to attempt a jump to the Wter Gam the back of a bobsleigh. Sprter Tyson Gay is aimg to make up for the disappotment of missg out a relay medal R by petg for the Uned Stat the 2018 Wter Olympics as a bobsleigh ph athlete.

Gay has been part of a Uned Stat 4x100-meter relay team that fished the top three at the Olympics twice the last four years, but do not have a medal to show for eher of those performanc due to a failed dg tt and a disqualifitn. Gay and Ryan Bailey - relay team-mat at the London Olympics - are among the 56 men and women petg Calgary this week at the USA Bobsled Natnal Ph Champnships, which help set the Uned Stat natnal teams for the 2016-17 ternatnal bobsleigh season. Acrdg to a prs release om USA Bobsled, Gay has only been workg wh a sled "for a handful of days.

‘LOVED, ADORED AND RPECTED’: TRIBUT FLOW AFTER ATH OF FIRST OUT GAY BOBSLEIGH ATHLETE

Though that would seem to leave Gay at a signifint disadvantage, the USA has a long history of ph athlet movg over om other sports, om Herschel Walker to Lolo Jon.

AUSTRALIAN Simon Dunn, the first openly gay man to reprent any untry the sport, has died sudnly aged 35.

4He also played wh Sydney’s gay and clive gby unn club, the Sydney Convicts, for over a Cred: Instagram / @bysimondunn. The group’s statement add: “He was a passnate advote for LGBTQIA+ reprentatn sport, speakg about his experienc of homophobia his younger years.

SIMON DUNN AD AT 35: TRIBUT PAID TO LOVED STAR WHO BEME FIRST OPENLY GAY MAN TO REPRENT ATRALIA BOBSLEDR

Dunn beme famo for his succs bobsleigh and also played wh Sydney’s gay and clive gby unn club, the Sydney Convicts, for over a .

COOL RUNNGS: DG CHEAT TYSON GAY TO BEE BOBSLEIGH ATHLETE

Dunn, who was born Goulburn, played gby league while growg up but he said prevly: “When I first me out, I tried to f to the ‘normal’ gay image: I gave up sport. 4He beme the first openly gay bobsleigherCred: Instagram / @bysimondunn.

Atralia’s first openly gay bobsledr has sudnly died aged 35 “after a rough year of personal loss” Dunn, who also played gby for the all-gay Sydney Convicts, spired the LGBT muny wh his sportg feats. Tragilly he was found ad Surry Hills, Sydney, on Saturday, his agent and the police moved to Canada to further his bobsleigh reer and beme the first gay man to reprent a untry at the eventually retired, but ma a eback 2021 an attempt to qualify for the 2022 Wter a bicep jury led him out of the Dunn has died at the age of 35Source: had recently posted on Instagram about breakg up wh his partner of five years, sayg had been a “rough year”.

ATRALIAN BOBSLEDR SIMON DUNN IS GAY GBY PLAYER

”Dunn was an advote for the LGBT muny and took on Israel Fol over his ntroversial claim that all gay people would go to hell. “There is still homophobia sport, ” he told Sky News at the time. So I posted thkg ’s a nice photo, I uld e my profile that there are gay athlet out there.

COMMUNY MOURNS SIMON DUNN, FIRST OUT GAY BOBSLEIGH ATHLETE, AD AT 35

“Simon reprented all, he always said ‘I am not the spokman, I am jt a gay whe male tellg you about my experienc, and experienc om those wh whom I listened and learnt’.

Heath Thorpe, a gay athlete who is one of the bt gymnasts Atralia, has been left off of the untry’s team head to the World Gymnastics Champnships. Simon Dunn, an openly gay bobsledr om Atralia, has been voted the hottt man the world by the rears of Attu magaze, a Brish gay publitn. Dunn beat out two-time champn, Tom Daley, himself an openly gay athlete.

GAY BOBSLEDR VOTED HOTTT MAN WORLD BY BRISH MAGAZE

"If I n make one young gay teen see that sexualy shouldn't be a factor sport then that's a w self. Not very reprentative but harmls and 's ol an openly gay athlete got regnized.

‘LOVED, ADORED AND RPECTED’: TRIBUT FLOW AFTER ATH OF FIRST OUT GAY BOBSLEIGH ATHLETE