Coming Out of the Oympic Closet

[OneFinger]

After a thrilling gold medal performance at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, Canadian swimmer Mark Tewksbury should have been on top of the world.

 

He had both the gold and a bronze medal around his neck, he made the cover of Time magazine and he had dozens of lucrative endorsement deals.

 

But Mr. Tewksbury had never felt so alone.

 

"I felt like a fraud," he recalled in an interview.

 

The strapping swimmer with the movie-star looks had a secret. He is gay and very few knew about it, not even his family.

 

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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20060405.TEWKSBURY05/TPStory/National

[Luv2play]

Mark is the co-chair for this summer's Outgames in Montreal. I wish him every success in this endeavor. It promises to be a great summer in Montreal for gay men and women from everywhere in the world.

[+ Tom Isern]

Damn. Hot boy! Thanks for sharing.

 

Is he a bottom? (Must be with those rugged good looks!)

[Yeswell]

He is a bottom, Tom. Well spotted.