At least 144 out LGBTQ athletes will be heading to Paris for the 2024 Summer Games, with a record number of out male Olympians participating, according to the LGBTQ sports site OutSports.
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| Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Village. Photo: @Paris2024 |
In the last Summer Olympics in 2021, which took place in Tokyo, Japan, there were at least 186 out competitors, according to OutSports co-founder Cyd Zeigler, who revealed the number increased as the Sports news site became aware of additional publicly out athletes.
Zeigler expects that, the number of out athletes on the 2024 list will heighten as well.
He added, the new additions include more male athletes and will be added to Outsports’ tally next week.
Zeigler said, “We’ve already, in the last 24 hours, heard of about a half dozen out athletes that we did not know of.”
