Just for completness’ sake, @Woodchuck45, you may also be interested…
According to Outsports, a media-watchdog and sports-news site, of the 14,690 athletes participating in the Olympic and Paralympic Games this year, only 23 are openly gay. That’s around 0.16%. Even so, it’s a big improvement over the 2004 Games in Athens, which counted just 11 out athletes. In Beijing in 2008 there were only 10.
edit: whoa Discourse just went crazy with that url.
Olympic Homophobia: Why Are There So Few Openly Gay Athletes?
http://olympics.time.com/2012/08/09/olympic-homophobia-why-are-there-so-few-openly-gay-athletes/
