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only 15 out LGBTQ athletes competed.Outsports reports that the athletes hail from 14 countries and will compete in nine different sports, including ice hockey, figure skating, skiing, and snowboarding.They include veteran LGBTQ competitors like Canadian figure skater Eric Radford, the first out gay man to win a gold Winter Olympics medal, bisexual Dutch speed skater Ireen Wüst, the most decorated LGBTQ Olympian of all time, and gay skier Gus Kenworthy, who will be competing for Great Britain after switching from Team USA (Kenworthy holds dual citizenship).Also Read: A tennis player yelled anti-gay slurs at the Olympics. He blamed the weather.The Beijing Winter Games will also feature a number of freshly out LGBTQ athletes, including Brazilian skeleton athlete Nicole Silveira and Team USA figure skater Timothy LeDuc, who will be the first out nonbinary athlete at the Winter Olympics.Team USA’s Brittany Bowe, a world record-holding speed skater, holds the honor of being the only out LGBTQ athlete to be chosen as a flag bearer for the Winter Olympics opening ceremony.Bowe, the only openly LGBTQ woman athlete on Team USA, will compete in her third Olympic games in Beijing.

first announced back in 2018, with a planned release date of Christmas 2020. In March 2019, it was pushed back to 2021.

victim of Team USA doctor Larry Nassar’s abuse. She provided a statement at his 2018 trial, where he was sentenced to 40 to 125 years in prison for criminal sexual assault.Last month, Maroney, 25, criticized FBI handling of the case before a Senate Judiciary Committee: “They allowed a child molester to go free for more than a year.”In 2019, her father died while detoxing from opioids.

Simone Biles has opened up about the forthcoming Olympic Games, which will take place in Tokyo in 100 days. The decorated gymnast revealed the Games will be about much more than making it onto the podium, when she sat down with Hoda Kotb on the April 14 episode of The Today Show. “I just feel like [with] everything that happened, I had to come back to the sport to be a voice, to have change happen,” the 24-year-old began, referencing the abuse she suffered at the hands of convicted sexual predator and former Team USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar.