Gay swimmer olympics

But still, that dream had gone and I knew I didn't have it in me to go again. That probably would've helped me a lot growing up. Jervis is now targeting a new sport - albeit not at Olympic level. Jervis' final race was at the Olympic Games in Paris last summer.

Very few male elite swimmers had come out before him and he said it took him 24 years to be who he really was. Inweeks before the Commonwealth Games, Jervis came out as gay. Decades of counting the pool floor tiles should give him some advantage when he dusts off his wetsuit again.

He briefly competed in open water marathon swimming before the Paris Games, but admits it was the hardest thing he has attempted. Jervis, who came out as gay inis a British swimmer who competes in the meter and meter freestyle events.

In he became one of the sport's first openly gay elite male swimmers when he publicly came out ahead of the Commonwealth Games.

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From 'I want them to know the real Dan' - Olympic swimmer Jervis comes out. The Welshman is dreaming of completing an Ironman triathlon. Before all that Jervis is going to travel the world because so far he has only seen it "from a bus window or hotel".

There have been modern Olympians [a] (including Paralympians, Summer Olympic athletes and artists, and Winter Olympians) who have identified as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, pansexual, non-binary, and/or queer, or who have openly been in a same-sex relationship.

Weeks after coming out, Jervis was planning on going to Birmingham to represent Wales at his third Commonwealth Games. Image source, Getty Images. I loved every minute of it. Dan Jervis is one of the only openly gay elite male swimmers in the world and represented Great Britain at the last two Olympic Games.

Jervis said he always hoped to be a good role model and, after competing at his second Olympics in Paris last summer, believes the time is right to leave the sport. I can't speak for other sports but I know it's very different in those.

List of LGBTQ Summer : List of LGBTQ Summer Olympians (–present)There are 86 [a] modern Summer Olympic athletes, who made their Olympic debut in and have identified as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, pansexual, non-binary, queer, or have openly been in a same-sex relationship

He has not been in a pool since. He had won bronze in the men's m freestyle at his first Games in He was in the form of his life and was dreaming of winning his first major senior title. Two-time Olympian and time national champion Dan Jervis has retired from swimming aged The m freestyle specialist also went to four World Championships and won two Commonwealth Games medals for Wales in a career that spanned over a decade.

When that opportunity is taken away from you, it's something that you can't really wrap your head around. It will give him time to reflect on a memorable career. It shouldn't be. Then Covid got him and he never had chance to compete for Wales again.

And I needed that. Dan Jervis, only out gay male swimmer at Paris Olympics, retires at 28 after swimming for ’year-old Dan’.