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The Olympics are in their final days. With 11 known out athletes this year, how have the gays fared in Beijing? So far, the results have been mixed. But there’s still hope for a diving hottie. Jason Bellini reports.
November 21st, 2009
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AUSTRALIAN Matthew Mitcham last night produced the dive of his life to win a shock gold medal in the men’s 10m platform and end host nation China’s stranglehold on the Beijing Olympic diving competition.
The 20-year-old Sydney diver produced the highest scoring dive in the history of the Olympics with his sixth and final effort to become Australia’s first male Olympic gold medallist in diving since Dick Eve in 1924.
Mitcham was trailing China’s Zhou Luxin by more than 30 points leading into the final round, but scored a whopping 112.10 on his last dive – a back two and a half somersault with two and a half twists – to pull off an stunning upset.
Mitcham finished with an overall score of 537.95 to defeat Zhou (533.15), who had led the final until the final round, to grab Australia’s second diving medal of the Games.
The openly homosexual Mitcham was in shock over his win last night.
“It’s absolutely surreal. I never thought that this would be possible,” Mitcham said.
“I wasn’t even sure of my medal chances at all. After I did my last dive and I saw I was in first, I thought, “That’s it, it’s a silver medal, I am so happy with this’ and then I won. I can’t believe it, I’m so happy.
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