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  • Olympian proposes to his boyfriend in Rio… Boyfriend says yes

    Olympian proposes to his boyfriend in Rio… Boyfriend says yes

    Olympian Tom Bosworth has made good on his promise and has proposed to his long-term boyfriend during the Olympic games.

    CREDIT: Tom Bosworth / Twitter

     

    Race Walker Tom Bosworth has just proposed to his boyfriend Harry- and he said yes! The pair got engaged on Rio’s famous Copacabana beach.

    Taking to social media, Tom said,

    “He said yes!”

    Speaking to THEGAYUK before he left the UK for Rio Bosworth said, that if Heathrow had the right ring he’d buy it to make his boyfriend an “honest man!”

    Bosworth came 6th in his game – but managed to break a British record in the sport of Race walking.

    Speaking about how the pair met Bosworth told THEGAYUK,

    “My female friend decided to hit on him. She quite liked the look of him.

    “Me and my other friend were sat there trying not to laugh as we quite clearly could see that he perhaps didn’t bat for that team (laughs).

    “She got very offended when he said, “You’re not my type.” He was trying to be polite.

    “She couldn’t understand why and it was at that point that I walked up to my friend and said, “I think he’s probably more my type, than your type.”

    “We got talking from there. The rest is history.”

  • Editors of The Daily Beast removes article after athlete “outing”

    Editors of The Daily Beast removes article after athlete “outing”

    The Daily Beast has removed and apologised for an article which potentially “outed” several athletes in this year’s Rio 2016 Olympic games.

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    The news site, The Daily Beast, has been heavily criticised after an article appeared online in which a journalist, Nico Hines, was trying to go on some dates using the gay dating app, Grindr – however the article revealed potentially identifiable characteristics of some of the sportsmen – some of whom are not out.

    German Lopez, who was covering the story for Vox.com said,

    “On its face, the story may seem like yet another fluffy piece about sex in the Olympic village, and not much else. But it did do one potentially awful thing: It may have outed multiple gay athletes, including one from “a notoriously homophobic country,” potentially putting people in real danger.”

    In a letter the Editorial team said that they were “wrong” and “sorry” for the article and took the decision to remove it from their site in an “unprecedented but necessary step”.

     

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    The editors also apologised to the athletes who “may have been inadvertently compromised” by the story.

    In the statement the Editors said,

    “As a newsroom, we succeed together and we fail together, and this was a failure on The Daily Beast as a whole, not a single individual. The article was not intended to do harm or degrade members of the LGBT community, but intent doesn’t matter, impact does. Our hope is that removing an article that is in conflict with both our values and what we aspire to as journalists will demonstrate how seriously we take our error.”

     

  • Olympic hopeful Tom Bosworth: I hated PE and always tried to get out of it

    Olympic hopeful Tom Bosworth: I hated PE and always tried to get out of it

    Speaking to THEGAYUK, Olympic gold hopeful Tom Bosworth revealed that he hated PE at school after fellow students found out that he was gay.

    Tom Bosworth
    CREDIT: Monty McKinnen / THEGAYUK

     

    Openly gay Olympic gold hopeful, Tom Bosworth, 26, has told THEGAYUK that he hated physical education at school and always tried to get out of doing the subject. He said that his time at school was an easy time to be targeted by bullies.

    Despite his hate of the subject – Tom has gone on to be one of Britain’s most successful athletes competing in his sport, Race Walking at the Commonwealth Games, the European Race Walking Cup, the World Championships and the World Race Walking Cup.

    “Some people found out that I was gay at school. I hated, hated PE and always tried to get out of it.

    “(I) Never did any sport in school because it was a very easy time to be targeted by bullies and so that was something I avoided greatly.”

    Confiding in how he found his love for Race walking he said,

    “My parents took me to a number of sports clubs outside of school because I liked doing sport, I liked being active, I had a lot of energy so I’m really glad they did that.

    “I could just be myself and nobody knew much about me, I just made some friends and almost felt like I had another life, an escape route really from school.

    “I loved going training. I guess that enjoyment is why I did it for so long. Then it helps when you start winning.”

    Tom Bosworth will be competing at the Olympics on the 12th August in the Men’s 20KM walk.

    Speaking in an interview with THEGAYUK, Tom also revealed that he was planning to pop the question to his long-term boyfriend if all went well on the track. He told the magazine’s editor that if they had the right ring at Heathrow he’d make an “honest man” out of his boyfriend.

     

    Read our full interview with Tom Bosworth in the latest issue of THEGAYUK for FREE out now.

  • Out diver Tom Daley takes home Bronze with Daniel Goodfellow

    Out diver Tom Daley takes home Bronze with Daniel Goodfellow

    Diving duo Tom Daley and Daniel Goodfellow have taken home a Bronze medal at this year’s Olympic in Rio.

    CREDIT: Tom Daley / Instagram

     

    The duo took home a bronze in the 10 metre Synchronized diving. This is the second bronze Tom has won at the Olympic games. He won his first at the London 2012 Olympics in the 10 metre platform diving event.

     

    Taking to social media, Tom said,

    “OLYMPIC BRONZE MEDALISTS!! I can’t believe it!! So proud of you @dannielgoodfellow :)”

     

  • TEAM GB Tom Bosworth: I’m going to buy my engagement ring on the flight out to RIO

    Olympic hopeful Tom Bosworth told THEGAYUK that if the Jewelers Tiffany’s had the perfect engagement ring, he might propose to his boyfriend at Rio 2016.

    CREDIT: Monty McKinnen for THEGAYUK

     

    Olympic Race Walker Tom Bosworth told THEGAYUK’s editor, Jake Hook that if the jewelers, Tiffany’s, had the perfect engagement ring at Heathrow he might buy it before his flight out to Rio in order to propose to his long-term boyfriend at the Olympic games.

    He said,

    “If Tiffany’s in Heathrow has the ring that I want, I might even make it official when I’m out there.”

     

    The athlete came out as gay last October live on the Victoria Derbyshire show and is just one of a handful of out Olympians taking part in the 2016 games.

    In the latest issue of THEGAYUK (issue 21) the Race Walker talked about how he met his boyfriend, saying,

    “My female friend decided to hit on him. She quite liked the look of him.

    “Me and my other friend were sat there trying not to laugh as we quite clearly could see that he perhaps didn’t bat for that team (laughs).

    “She got very offended when he said, “You’re not my type.” He was trying to be polite.

    “She couldn’t understand why and it was at that point that I walked up to my friend and said, “I think he’s probably more my type, than your type.”

    “We got talking from there. The rest is history.”

     

    Be sure to download a copy of THEGAYUK ISSUE 21 for free. Out now on all good digital newsstands.

     

    CREDIT: Monty McKinnen for TheGAYUK

  • Tom Daley shows off his Team GB kit

    Olympian Tom Daley has shown off his uniform for this summer’s Olympics in Rio.

     

    The Olympian Tom Daley took to his Instagram to show off his Team GB kit for this summer’s Olympics in Rio and it doesn’t leave too much to the imagination.

     

    The kit consists of a pair of flip-flops, a red towel, a kit bag and the tiniest swimming costume known to man – not that we’re complaining of course.

    Just to remind us of what he looked like in 2012 here’s some piccys for you

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    Embed from Getty Images

    Embed from Getty Images

     

     

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