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Thursday Watercooler: Mitcham comes to defense of fellow swimmer

James Withers — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 12:18:07 +0000

Officer who led Stonewall Inn raid dies. Seymour Pine, the deputy police inspector who led the 1969 raid on the Stonewall Inn, died last Thursday in New Jersey. The 91 year old was in charge of(...)

NBC’s Bob Costas Discusses Gays in Sports

swarn — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 21:08:27 +0000

On August 23rd at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Australian diver Matthew Mitcham, the only out gay male athlete at those games, won Olympic gold in men’s platform diving. In doing so, he(...)

NBC on not mentioning Mitcham is gay: “We can’t cover everything”

swarn — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 23:21:57 +0000

Burnt out and struggling with depression and anxiety, an up-and-coming Olympic hopeful drops out of his sport two years before the Beijing Games. His coach talks him into resuming training the year before the Olympics and he makes his country’s team which isn’t expected to fare terribly well against China’s powerhouse squad. Indeed, the athlete [...]

Out Australian Diver Matthew Mitcham Wins Olympic Gold

swarn — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 21:26:51 +0000

In a shocking upset, openly gay Australian diver Matthew Mitcham, 20, has won the Olympic gold medal in the men’s 10m platform at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. Going into the final round, Mitcham trailed China’s Zhou Luxin by more than 30 points. But Mitcham scored an astonishing 112.10 on his last dive — [...]