Diver Matthew Mitcham, the only openly gay male athlete in the Beijing Olympics, won gold in the 10m platform. He beat Chinese favorite Zhou Luxin by 4.8 points, preventing China from sweeping gold in diving events. Mitcham is the first Aussie to win diving gold since 1924, but that's not the only thing that makes him a trailblazer.He is hardly the first gay athlete to compete but he is one of the first to be out while competing. American diver Greg Louganis did not share his orientation until his diving career was over. To Mitcham, he is just living his life as a gay man and as a diver, and there is nothing extraordinary about that:http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/beijing/blog/fourth_place_medal/post/Openly-gay-diver-wins-gold?urn=oly,102974
the other aussie diver is gay too btw
That dive was pretty fabulous.
Holy shit, gay people can be good athletes?! Thank god we have yahoo here to let us know this shocking news!
Look at that happy lil' fag.
I hereby nominate the Aussie Diver Matthew Mitcham for First Fag of /sp/, for his unwitting heroics in bringing the '7/8' meme to our lives.
Mark Tewksbury won gold in Barcelona. Dunno if he was out during those games though.
but... but...
>>291124Do we even have any other fags who could give him a run for his money?Obligatory 7-1
>>291137I'm staring at Nastia the whole way through.
>>2911247/8 is not a meme and never will be. stop trying to force it