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The Games will be the first for the out Armenian national champion. The Olympic Games are a celebration of country and sport. These athletes represent 14 countries, including the United States. After winning gold in the Skeleton Intercontinental Cup last November, Silveira is hoping to take home the gold for her country and edge past her girlfriend, Kim Meylemans, who will be competing in the same event for Belgium in Beijing.

The Olympic Games mark his first time competing at the Olympics. The four-time world champion and seven-time French national champion previously competed in the Olympics, earning a silver medal with his skating partner, Gabriella Papadakis. Founded as the Gay Olympics, it was started in the United States in San Francisco, California, in , as the brainchild of Olympic decathlete (Mexico City ) and medical doctor Tom Waddell.

Eric Radford Rad85E is a two-time world champion and Olympic gold medalist representing Team Canada at his third Olympic Games after initially retiring from competitions in Emily Clark emclark13 is an out ice hockey player for Team Canada. He won slopestyle silver at Sochi and came out as gay the year after.

Zandee-Hart, a Cornell graduate, will play in her first Olympic Games this winter. Ronja Savolainen ronjasavolainen is an out Finnish ice hockey player who could compete against her girlfriend Anna Kjellbin, who plays for Team Sweden. Mouat has boasted an impressive pre-Olympics career, recently finishing first in the World Mixed Doubles Championship amongst other competitions.

In Beijing, Glenn will be part of the team as a first alternate. This will be the first Olympics competition for the four-time British national champion. Cizeron and Papadakis have broken 28 world records together, reigning as current and historical world record holders in multiple categories.

Daniela Iraschko-Stolz danieiraschkostolz is an out ski jumper from Austria who won a silver medal in the Pyeongchang Olympics. Filippo Ambrosini is an out figure skater representing Team Italy. After being diagnosed with ADHD, Savolainen has used her platform to advocate for and destigmatize neurodiversity on and off the ice.

With this year’s Winter Games in Pyeongchang, Rippon and Kenworthy are the first openly gay American men to compete in the Olympics since the legality of same-sex marriage was established. The Gay Games is a worldwide sport and cultural event that promotes acceptance of sexual diversity, featuring lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBTQ) athletes, artists and other individuals.

After being left off the roster for Pyeongchang, she earned her spot for the Beijing Games as a valuable goal-scorer. Before initially taking up skeleton as a joke, Blaser was a volleyball player, cheerleader and decathlete. Brown previously competed in the Sochi Olympics, earning bronze and becoming one of the youngest male figure skating Olympic medalists, and was a first alternate for the Olympic Games.

Glenn came out in December after an interview with The Dallas Voice. Now Gus Kenworthy is targeting Milano Cortina Gus Kenworthy, pictured here at the PyeongChang Winter Olympics. Jamie Lee Rattray ratt26 is an out ice hockey player for Canada. At least 35 of this year’s Olympic athletes are openly lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer, more than double the amount of queer competitors from the winter competition in.

Anna Kjellbin annakjellbin is an out ice hockey player for Sweden. Her biggest competition this Olympic season will be her girlfriend Nicole Silveira, who competes for Brazil. Along with her teammate, Micah Zandee-Hart, she is a graduate of Cornell and will represent Canada again after winning a silver medal in the Games on the Canadian National Team.

Megan Banks megan. Clark is a Canadian silver medalist, and she continues to use her platform to promote hockey and uplift women in sports. The full list from Outsports can be found here. She is one of three skiing siblings and will compete in Beijing with her sister Leonie. National Championship.

The Olympic Games mark his first time competing on this global stage, previously earning multiple titles with his skating partner, Rebecca Ghilardi. Gus Kenworthy guskenworthy is an openly gay freestyle skier and a dual citizen of Great Britain and the United States. Kjellbin is a professional hockey player and has the potential to compete against her girlfriend of over two years, Ronja Savolainen, who will compete for Team Finland.