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• EX-OLYMPIC SWIMMER MARK FOSTER OUT AS GAY
• FORMER OLYMPIC SWIMMER MARK FOSTER OUT AS GAY
• MARK FOSTER: FORMER SWIMMER AND OLYMPIAN SAYS 'NOW IS THE TIME' AS HE REVEALS HE IS GAY
• TIME TO BE MYSELF: MARK FOSTER REVEALS HE IS GAY
• IS MARK FOSTER GAY? KNOW MORE ABOUT HIS LIFE!
• WORLD CHAMPN SWIMMER AND OLYMPIAN MARK FOSTER COM OUT AS GAY
• MARK FOSTER HAS OPENED UP ABOUT G OUT AS GAY: 'YOU GET SO ED TO NOT SHARG YOUR FULL SELF'

EX-OLYMPIC SWIMMER MARK FOSTER OUT AS GAY

Mark Foster adms he 'tiptoed around' subject of his sexualy as ex-Team GB Olympic swimmer out as gaySix-time former world champn swimmer Mark Foster has e out as gayThe 47-year-old says he believ he had 'always been tellg half-tths public'Foster has gone on to work as ach, pund, and was on Strictly Come DancgHe says he would have won more his reer if he hadn't shied away om issue Updated: 15:24 BST, 27 November 2017. Swimmer Mark Foster felt he had not been te to himself as he 'tiptoed around' issu over his sexualy for so long before g out as 47-year-old six-time world champn, who rried the Great Bra flag at the openg ceremony of the 2008 Olympic Gam Beijg, nfirmed he was gay a wi-rangg terview wh the Guardian, which was published on Monday ma the cisn after believg he had always been 'tellg half-tths public' spe the full support of iends and fay. Former Brish athlete Mark Foster has revealed an terview that he is g out as gayThe ex-world champn, pictured at the Pri of Bra Awards, says he has told 'half-tths'Sce retirg, Foster - who claimed 11 European Champnship gold medals, was twice Commonwealth Gam champn, set eight sprt world rerds and also peted across five Olympics - has gone on to work as a ach and media pund, as well as appearg on the BBC's Strictly Come Dancg programme.

FORMER OLYMPIC SWIMMER MARK FOSTER OUT AS GAY

And I'm not the first gay sportsman to e out. I was shocked by the treatment of gay people Rsia and need to say somethg - whout revealg anythg about myself. He add the Guardian terview: 'There was that stuff about Becky, but she knows I'm gay and knows my other half.

I'm gay. Mark Foster, who swam for Great Bra five Olympic Gam, has e out publicly as gay an terview wh The Guardian.

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

I’m gay. He me out as gay 2017 and has not been married till now.

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?

TIME TO BE MYSELF: MARK FOSTER REVEALS HE IS GAY

Mark Foster me out as gay  December 2017. The swimmer rells the taboo that society thks of sportsmen beg gay.

Olympic swimmer Mark Foster who me out as gay this week has opened up about the reactn to his announcement. In an terview wh the Guardian, Foster publicly acknowledged that he is gay earlier this week. He add: “Gog back to when I was a kid, beg gay was wrong.

I was shocked by the treatment of gay people Rsia and need to say somethg – whout revealg anythg about myself.

IS MARK FOSTER GAY? KNOW MORE ABOUT HIS LIFE!

And I’m not the first gay sportsman to e out. 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.

“There was that stuff about Becky [Adlgton] but she knows I’m gay and knows my other half. ’”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. “It’s not like I’ve been phed to e out, ” the former world champn swimmer says as he prepar to tell the world he is gay.

WORLD CHAMPN SWIMMER AND OLYMPIAN MARK FOSTER COM OUT AS GAY

Foster had not been tortured about beg gay, or ashamed, and over the past 26 years he has lived wh, and loved, two different men long relatnships. Even durg fevered gossip about a possible relatnship wh a fellow swimmer, the four-time Olympic medallist and BBC analyst Rebec Adlgton, durg the 2016 Olympics, when she was filmed squeezg his leg unr the table, an assumptn that he might be gay did not seem to matter to anyone but Foster and those clost to do matter, particularly sport, where n still feel terribly hard for people to e out. Foster is telligent and articulate, a man who also works as a mol and a motivatnal speaker, but he has stggled sce the age of 17 to voice out loud the simple fact he is gay.

The longer we talk the clearer the remr that beg a gay sportsman still verg on the we turn to football, where the glass ceilg seems osted and unbreakable to gay and bisexual men who play the game profsnally while harbourg a secret, the importance of siar sportsmen talkg openly is obv. Foster, a Spurs supporter, unrstands why gay footballers might fear abe om the terrac or uncertaty om team-mat if they me out.

I went to the Attu awards last month and gave Greg Louganis [the gay Amerin diver and double Olympic champn] an award. He knew I was gay but we never talked much.

MARK FOSTER HAS OPENED UP ABOUT G OUT AS GAY: 'YOU GET SO ED TO NOT SHARG YOUR FULL SELF'

But I accepted I was gay when I fell love wh my first partner, before a world champnships race 2008. ’“I wasn’t like Gareth Thomas [the gby player who me out as gay when married]. I’ve lived an openly gay life to my iends and fay.

Foster and Jackson mt have spoken about beg secretly gay Olympians when sharg a flat? ”When Jackson me out three months ago, Foster tweeted: “Are you gay @ljackson? Ian knew I was gay and we ed to speak a lot on the phone but he wouldn’t share anythg.

My swim schools ter for children and there’s this sid perceptn that gay equals paedophile/child molter. “So I unrstand what’s stoppg gay footballers g out.