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BBC prenter and former Olympian Col Jackson has e out as gay ne years after he nied .

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OLYMPIC MEDALLIST COL JACKSON ANNOUNC HE IS GAY

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The Brish Olympic silver medallist and BBC sports prenter Col Jackson has spoken publicly for the first time about beg gay, sayg he thought the time was right to reveal his an terview for a Swedish documentary lled Rabow Hero, the Welsh two-time 110m hurdl world champn said the reason he had not prevly spoken of his sexualy was to avoid beg “sensatnalised”. ”Jackson spoke about the stigma around gay athlet to the Voice newspaper 2008 when he said: “It’s the 21st century.

COL JACKSON OPENS UP ABOUT MOMENT HE ME OUT AS GAY

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Bosworth me out as gay 2015, and has sce been an imprsive advote for LGBT rights.

Part of me didn’t know if Atralia wanted s champn to be gay. In fact, Jackson – now a BBC pund and prenter – had twice publicly nied he was gay: a 2004 tobgraphy and a 2008 newspaper he said the circumstanc felt right to e out aged 50 a TV terview, more than a sce a tabloid kiss-and-tell forced him to reveal the fact to his parents.

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In his first terview nfirmg he is gay the former swimmer tells Donald McRae that he has spent years not beg his te self and how he feels that probably had a negative impact on his reer the pool * colin jackson gay *

Jackson was born 1967, the same year male homosexualy was partially crimalised the UK. Jackson’s ele reer overlapped wh that of Jt Fashanu, the first openly gay footballer, who took his own life 1998, eight years after revealg his when approached by the programme Rabow Hero, which airs on SVT Swen, Jackson beme nvced his news would not be “sensatnalised” as he had once feared.

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”There had been speculatn about Jackson’s sexualy, which tensified 2006 when the News of the World published a story which a gay male air steward claimed to have had a secret affair wh prompted Jackson to e out to his parents.

Friends suggt that he was not ready to e out 2008 when asked by the Voice, Bra’s biggt black newspaper, how he felt about people thkg he is gay. Col Jackson out as gay Swedish TV terview. Col Jackson has opened up about keepg his homosexualy secret om the outsi world durg his glterg athletics reer and how he wasn't prepared for the global impact two years ago when announcg he was gay.

And a podst wh The Tim, former Olympic silver medallist Jackson rells the moment when back 2017, he announced to the world an terview for a Swedish documentary lled Rabow Hero, that he was gay after years of mours and nials.

YEARS AFTER NYG HE WAS GAY, OLYMPIC MEDALIST COL JACKSON OUT

And Jackson admted, the reverberatns the terview had across the globe, left him unrstandg why a top-class morn day footballer would not want to e out as gay. When you don't see many major footballers that sense (g out as gay), I totally unrstand how they would feel. Gay former Olympian Col Jackson may prefer the pany of men romantilly.

BBC PRENTER COL JACKSON OUT AS GAY AFTER NYG SEXUALY NE YEARS AGO

It’s an amg le om Jackson, and a remr that gay men are not monolhic. Jackson, a former Olympic silver medalist and two-time World Champn hurdler, me out publicly as gay 2017.

A earlier, he nied beg gay a televisn terview.

Col Jackson, the former Olympic silver medalist and two-time World Champn hurdler, has e out publicly as gay an terview wh a Swedish televisn program on SVT.

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In 2008, Jackson rpond publicly to persistent speculatn about his sexual orientatn sayg he was not gay. “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.

DANCG ON ICE STAR COL JACKSON OPENS UP ABOUT MOMENT HE ME OUT AS GAY

And I’m not the first gay sportsman to e out. 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. I was shocked by the treatment of gay people Rsia and need to say somethg – whout revealg anythg about myself.

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.

COL JACKSON, TWO-TIME WORLD CHAMPNSHIP GOLD MEDALLIST, OUT AS GAY

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. “There was that stuff about Becky [Adlgton] but she knows I’m gay and knows my other half.

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