World champn skier G Kenworthy, who took home a silver medal om the 2014 Sochi Olympic Gam, has e out as gay.
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- G KENWORTHY, WORLD CHAMPN SKIER, COM OUT AS GAY
- HIG ROBERTS SAYS LIFE IS ‘GENTLER AND EASIER’ SCE G OUT AS GAY LAST MONTH
- U.S. OLYMPIC SKIER G KENWORTHY OUT AS GAY
G KENWORTHY, WORLD CHAMPN SKIER, COM OUT AS GAY
The athlete is now the first male World Cup alpe skier the world to publicly e out as gay, but the journey was no piic. * skier gay *
Natnal team, has e out as gay. "I didn't know what gay was terms of how that uld exist the spac I loved and the spac I found myself, which was sports, " he says. "I was not sure if what I was feelg was matchg up wh the way I was perceivg gayns at that time, which was obvly a wrong [pictn].
"I was tryg to balance the feelgs of beg gay but also not tly believg that [I] uld be succsful such a mascule sport.
HIG ROBERTS SAYS LIFE IS ‘GENTLER AND EASIER’ SCE G OUT AS GAY LAST MONTH
* skier gay *
There were moments where you hear homophobic slurs, and, you know, I was relyg on lots of sponsors to stay alive or equipment for money.
U.S. OLYMPIC SKIER G KENWORTHY OUT AS GAY
When G Kenworthy peted at the Sochi Olympics 2014 he was aaid that someone would fd out that he is gay -- fast-forward eight years and he is out * skier gay *
And I would hear thgs that would make me very hant to believe that my reer uld ntue while also beg an intifiable gay man. I wasn't able to be openly gay and be the person that I wanted to be. The timg, to say nothg of the untry, wasn't que right to tell the world he was gay.