Olympics
Sports Illustrated reveals multi-platform special featuring Caitlyn Jenner’s 1976 decathlon gold (VIDEO)
NEW YORK— Sports Illustrated today released a multi-platform, 40th anniversary retrospective of Caitlyn Jenner’s 1976 Gold Medal-winning decathlon performance at the Montreal Olympic Games. The SI special includes the premiere of the SI Films exclusive, “Jenner: 40 Years After Gold,” the publication of SI Senior Writer Tim Layden’s in-depth profile and the reveal of Jenner…
Sports Illustrated to present a multi-platform look at Caitlyn Jenner’s 1976 decathlon gold (VIDEO)
NEW YORK — Sports Illustrated (SI) have announced a multi-platform, 40th anniversary retrospective of Caitlyn Jenner’s 1976 Gold Medal-winning decathlon performance at the Montreal Olympic Games. It begins with an SI Films premiere Monday, June 6 on SI.com, and continues with a long-form digital package and magazine cover story to be released on June 8….
British Olympics hopeful comes out as gay
Tom Bosworth, who competed for Great Britain at the World Athletics Championships and is set to feature at the Rio Olympics and is the first athlete on the team to come out as gay. Bosworth revealed the news on the BBC’s Victoria Derbyshire show, saying, “Coming out is no surprise to my friends, family and even…
Caitlyn Jenner found the ‘Champion Within’
Early in her 1996 motivational book Finding the Champion Within, Olympic Gold Medalist Caitlyn Jenner expresses her devotion to “My lovely wife, Kris.” “When we met on September 10, 1990, my life had lost direction,” Jenner writes. “But it’s amazing what one person can awaken in another.” Finding the Champion Within: A Step-By-Step Plan for…
Chris Kluwe assays the International Olympic Committee for anti-gay hypocrisy in scathing commentary
Chris Kluwe, the highly respected former punter for the Minnesota Vikings and outspoken supporter of LGBT rights, has penned a scathing editorial for Britain’s The Guardian. In the widely read piece, Kluwe goes to great lengths to underscore how the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has threatened to dethrone any athlete who speaks out against Russia’s anti-gay…
You’ll never look at the luge the same again (VIDEO)
http://youtu.be/effb2JYiKXM Once you see this, you’ll never look at the luge the same again. Check out The Canadian Institute of Diversity and Inclusion commercial in support of all athletes at the Winter Olympics in Sochi.
HRC to track NBC’s coverage of Russia’s anti-LGBT law during Olympics
WASHINGTON – Today the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation’s largest LGBT civil rights organization, announced it will monitor NBC’s coverage of the 2014 Winter Olympic Games and track reporting on the anti-LGBT situation in Russia. For the full 17 day run of the Sochi Games, HRC will track the anticipated 1,500 hours of Olympic…