Adam Rippon has taken the world by storm throughout his time on the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea.
The 28-year-old determine skater, who turned the primary brazenly homosexual athlete to compete for america within the Winter Video games, received a bronze medal with a blinding routine Sunday evening, and has continued to endear himself to followers together with his appeal and wit, each in individual and on Twitter.
Rippon, who refused to satisfy with Vice President Mike Pence attributable to his stance on LGBTQ points, has used his platform as a U.S. Olympian to push for range and inclusion, and he delivered a robust assertion on being a homosexual athlete Tuesday.
“Being homosexual and being an athlete…it doesn’t (expletive) matter,” Rippon informed reporters. “It actually doesn’t. Being an athlete takes numerous guts, takes numerous braveness and that’s what it’s essential to bear in mind. Your sexuality has completely nothing to do with this. Up to now few weeks, I’ve by no means talked about my eyebrows and I’ve by no means talked about being homosexual a lot in my total life as a result of it’s by no means been an enormous deal.
“It’s not an enormous deal to me. In so many articles, it’s all the time ‘homosexual Olympian Adam Rippon’ and I put on that title actually proudly, however I’m not a homosexual Olympian, I’m simply an Olympian. And now I’m an Olympic medalist and I additionally occur to be homosexual. That’s part of who I’m nevertheless it has nothing to do with how I bought right here.”
Rippon, who received his bronze medal within the crew occasion, will compete within the males’s free skate Sunday the place he’s certain to impress viewers as soon as once more.