What a great way to start the day, finding out that our openly gay Olympic diver, Matthew Mitcham has taken out gold in the 10m platform diving competition over night, putting an end to the ideas of a chinese clean sweep of the diving pool. I watched the semi finals yesterday and Matthew was in spectacular form. According to this report, Matthew had a couple of dodgy early dives in the finals but came back with several tens to take out the competition! Congratulations Matthew, we are so proud. I’m even more proud that you can stand up and publicly thank your partner Lachlan, and that it’s not sensationalised!
Update: Here’s the Youtube version of the video that was here earlier. Hopefully now everyone will be able to watch it.
Coverage from Beijing is delayed here on the east coast of the US and I fell asleep during last night’s coverage, so I was psyched this morning to see that he had won the gold. Congratulations to him, well done!!
I guess i am the only chinese guy reading the blog. i watched the game last night,i am so happy as the only opening gay men in the olympic and he win a gold, Matthew did a nice job last night,and i love him! and matthew speak chinese too haha.
Very exciting. He seems so sweet and genuinely thrilled to win. I just wish NBC (the US station with exclusive coverage) had shown the medal ceremony.
Oh, and apparently, since I am not in Australia, I am not allowed to view the clip you have in this post.
Rupert Murdoch and his greedy mob are at it again. I am an Australian living in Italy and Fox news tell me I don’t have the right to view the video of Matthew’s win.It’s a shame that he put so much effort into winning for his country and f****** Fox tells me they own the rights.
He is hot – articulate and talented – good on him.
What a fantastic result – and he seems like such a nice person, too! There’s an excellent post-win interview with him up on YouTube at the moment with his mother on the left and Lachlan on the right:
I couldn’t watch your embedded video either unfortunately, as I’m not in Australia, but there are some other videos of Matthew’s diving on YouTube – just put his name in the search-box.
Hooray for Matthew! I taped last night’s event and can’t wait to watch it! If you re did your most popular Aussie competition, he would probably win today! And cute as a button too!
I love how you state his sexuality before his actual achievement. No offense but there is more to a person then what arouses them.
i saw him in the finals was so proud and glad to hear he won, there were no canucks to cheer for so i was cheering for the Mo!!!!
Congratulations to matt , he is so cute , so simple , so tender ….i see the video in a french web site ( he was with his mother and his boyfriend …so lovely , so romantic .
I also see his interview in bejing for the canadian television , matt speak french with a such lovely accent .
Congratulations aganin for matt ( i have seen his personnal and official web site )from a lot of french gays fans .
You can see video of him in a french gay site :
http://gayclic.com/ so nice to heard him speaking french .
I think Matthew did a fantastic job for Australia. However I think the most interesting thing to note is that Matthew Mitcham is not the first openly gay Australian athlete. Last year Mathew Helm did an article for DNA in which he describes himself as openly gay. I suppose the difference is that Mathew H didn’t come out in the local paper and therefore people aren’t as aware.