Natalie Cook

Gay Watch at the Olympics: First medal is won by an LGBT athlete

(Editor’s note: Gay Watch at the Olympics is a regular feature keeping track of the nearly two dozen LGBT athletes at London 2012. But here is a spoiler alert! In the U.S., NBC is tape-delaying much of the London 2012 Olympics on its various stations, yet live-streaming on the Internet. Some of the results listed below may not have yet been broadcast in your area.)

Fans of Team USA are looking forward to Friday when the women’s soccer team plays New Zealand in the quarterfinals and the women’s basketball team plays the Czech Republic.

London Olympics to feature 10 out athletes

The number of openly gay and lesbian athletes at the 2012 London Summer Olympics is on par with the totals for Athens in 2004 and Beijing in 2008.

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