google.com, pub-9501031967421588, DIRECT, f08c47fec0942fa0 Skier Gus Kenworthy: ‘My legacy in Pyeongchang was that kiss – to have it broadcast to the world felt amazing’ ~ Bharath Bulletin

Thursday, February 3, 2022

Skier Gus Kenworthy: ‘My legacy in Pyeongchang was that kiss – to have it broadcast to the world felt amazing’

The 30-year-old on the toll of not living as his ‘true self’ before coming out, switching to Team GB and unease at China hosting the Winter Olympics

‘I think of that person, or look at photos of that person, and it feels like a lifetime ago,” Gus Kenworthy says as he remembers winning a silver medal for the United States as a freestyle skier at his first Winter Olympics in Sochi in 2014. So much has changed since then. He is now about to compete for Great Britain, the country of his birth, in his third and final Olympics in Beijing and Kenworthy will ski as a gay man, an LGBTQ+ activist and an actor.

The most important facet of his transition is that, as Kenworthy says: “I’m just much happier now than I was back then when I wasn’t living my life authentically. I wasn’t being my true self and it definitely took a toll.”

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