Thorpe
Beijing time on July 12 news, according to foreign media reports, 31-year-old swimming Olympic champion Ian Thorpe in front of the media openly came out, admitting that he is gay. In today's sports world, there are more and more stars who dare to admit that they are gay, so let's take stock of gay stars in sports for you.
Daley
Beijing time on December 2, 2013 news, the British BBC website suddenly broke the fierce news, their diving darling Daly came out!
Gro-Hamson
Norwegian women's handball team No. 10 Gro hamson. Norwegian women's handball teams Gro Hammerseng and Katja Nylberg, are an openly gay pair. Gro is the captain of the Norwegian team and Katja is also a regular in the world competition MVP.
Germany's high jump star Friedrich
The German high jump star Friedrich, who once helped Germany win the high jump championship in the Golden League Berlin, is actually a complete homosexual. She once had a relationship with the Polish female swimmer Voyt, but with the interference of the coach, the two had to go to break up.
Matthew Mitchum
Australian diver Matthew Mitchum, the 2008 Beijing Olympic champion in the men's 10m platform
Billiards star Chen Chunzhen
Chinese billiard diva Chen Chunzhen. Chen Chunzhen, known as billiards Coova. Although his face is pure and lovely, he is quite rebellious in his bones. Since becoming famous, she has a lot of wrongs and gossip. In 2001, Taiwan's gossip magazine Next Weekly broke the news that Chen Chunzhen, Aya, Xiao S, Fan Weiqi, and others were holding an open-air shake-head sex party in Yangmingshan, Taipei. In the show business circle at that time, it really played a role in "flat land and thunder". There are also reports that Chen Chunzhen has an affair with Taiwanese supermodel Hong Xiaolei, who allegedly lived in the same house when traveling and had a close relationship to share the prize money of the billiard diva.
Czech tennis player Navratinova
Czech "Female Kong" Navratinova. The Czech "female Kong" Navratinova not only created the myth of tennis: 341 titles, including 59 Grand Slam titles. It is also a monument on the "Broken Arm Mountain": there are 44 lesbians under her name, and she seduces no fewer than 20 friends! Of course, the straightforward Navratinova also proudly said: she loves everyone she is with!
American tennis star Billy Jane King
American tennis star Billy Jane King. The name means legendary in women's tennis, not only because she won 12 Grand Slam singles titles, 16 Grand Slam women's doubles titles and 11 Grand Slam mixed doubles titles, of which 10 Wimbledon women's doubles titles record can not be broken, but also because she dared to announce her homosexual identity in the 1980s, which almost brought disaster to Mrs. Kim at the time, and the sponsors left her and were blindsided everywhere. But by now, she finally had her way out, and even Obama personally presented the Freedom Medal to this brave woman.
Former WTA World No. 1 Maurismo
At the 1999 Australian Open, she was described by Davenport and Singis as "like half a man". When she landed on the podium, the 19-year-old Maurismo directly admitted that he only liked women, and now, Mauresmo and his girlfriend Gilardini live in Geneva, the two have been in love for many years, and life has long been formal.
Johnny Will
On December 31, 2011 (the actual license was actually No. 30), the famous American figure skating beauty Johnny Weir announced on his Twitter that he had registered his marriage with his same-sex boyfriend, Victor Voronov, a descendant of Russian Jewish immigrants, and that the husband and wife took a joint surname: weir-voronov.
Robbie Rogers
In early 2013, former Leeds United American striker Robbie Rodgers publicly stated on his blog that he would not put up with it for 25 years, that he would show his homosexual tendencies with integrity, and that he was out! He said publicly: "Secrets can cause internal injuries. Try to tell your loved one 25 years later that you're gay, and try to convince yourself that you're a creator with a good goal, even if others don't. ”
Megan-Rapinoe
U.S. women's soccer player Megan Rapinoe identified herself as gay in an interview with the gay magazine Out. Meghan Rapinoe competed in the 2011 Women's World Cup and finished runners-up with the team, and his gay girlfriend is Sarah Walsh of the Australian women's national team. Rapinoe said she had never hidden herself, but had never been asked directly about her sexual orientation from outsiders.
Imk Duplitzer
German fencer Imk Duplitzer.
Glena
In early 2013, the Zhejiang Chouzhou Bank women's basketball team announced the signing of Britney Glena. Glena is a very characterful female player who once confessed to being a homosexual.
John Armage
John Amici, you may not be familiar with it, but he was Yao Ming's teammate, but he didn't play 1 game for the Rockets. Yes, in his autobiography in 2007, Armich openly admitted to being gay, exactly 4 years after he retired. In this way, Armage became the first (former) player in NBA history to openly admit that he was gay. Throughout his NBA career, Armic played for the Rockets, Magic and Jazz. Armich, 42, ended his professional basketball career in 2003 and now runs a motivational speaking business in Manchester, England, and has built an Armage basketball center for high school girls.
Lisa Darqvist
Swedish women's footballer Lisa Dalquist
Rick Wilts
Rick Wieltz, Warriors president, shocked the league by publicly announcing that he was gay when he was a top Suns executive in May 2011. At the time, former Suns superstar Charles Barkley openly sided with Wiltz, and Barkley said that NBA gay players abound and that he himself would rather be teammates with gays. In addition, suns players Nash and Grant Hill both said they were proud of Wiltz.
Canadian figure skater Brian Ozzer
Canadian figure skater Brian Ozzard was a former figure skater who represented Canada in two consecutive men's singles silver medals at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo and the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, as well as gold medals at the 1987 World Championships. Brian Ozzard, 49, is still active on the ice rink and is a famous figure skating coach. The hot Korean figure skating diva Kim Yeon-er is Brian Ozawa's proud protégé. In November 1998, he had a dispute with his ex-boyfriend while living with him. As a result of the lawsuit, his homosexual identity was also exposed. Although the identity of homosexuality is made public, he never mentions the content of the lawsuit.
Brazilian women's volleyball nationals Sheila and Annie
Brazilian women's volleyball nationals Sheila and Annie. Many gay people in the sports world are long-term love, and the two beautiful women in the Brazilian volleyball arena, Sheila and Annie, are such a pair. The two have known each other for a long time, and the process of training and playing together gradually developed feelings. In daily life, they are like old husbands and wives, and they feel very tacit in the field, and this volleyball couple has even met each other's parents and received the blessings of their respective parents, no different from formal couples.
Australian Sands will rank Natalie Cook
One of the world's top beach volleyball players, silver medalist at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and gold medalist at the Sydney 2000 Olympics. She is currently married to Canadian beach volleyball actress Sarah Maxwell.
American football star Tuoro
While watching Brokeback Mountain, the famous football star actually burst into tears, on the grounds that the plot of the movie was the same as what he experienced in real life. Tuoro also admitted that his homosexual status has tormented him, and in addition to not being afraid to face the pressure of his teammates and coaches, his career will also be seriously affected. So usually only after they can retire, they dare to disclose their sexual orientation.
British equestrian carl Heist
In 2011, he represented the United Kingdom and won the team championship of the European Fancy Equestrian Competition. Silver medalist in the Masters individual competition. Britain's only Olympian to come out publicly.
Golfer Rosie Jones
Unlike Woods, who sneaked up on the affair, women's golf star Rosie Jones was much more open-minded, but it wasn't until she was 44 that she dared to announce her sexuality in public. When she was writing a column for The New York Times, the brave star wrote bluntly: "I'm gay, that's it." A simple sentence caused an uproar in the American sports world, but now Rosie Jones is living well, and no one discriminates against her because she is gay.
Corinth
NBA players