3 out athletes win big medals skating to Madonna and RuPaul at early Olympics preview
Out LGBTQ athletes won numerous medals with songs from Madonna and RuPaul a couple months before the Winter Olympics. The post 3 out athletes win big medals skating to Madonna and RuPaul at early Olympics preview appeared first on Outsports.
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The 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan will have dozens of out athletes, including some in figure skating. Several of them were big winners at the Finlandia Trophy over the weekend, the sixth Grand Prix of the season.
All of them competed to songs from Madonna and RuPaul.
Amber Glenn took home the silver medal at the Finlandia Trophy in the women’s singles competition. She led the field after her gorgeous short program set to Madonna’s “Like A Prayer,” then fell to a very close second after the free skate by Chiba Mone from Japan.
Glenn is the two-time defending champion of the United States. She was left off the 2022 USA Olympics team, and now she has been on a tear over the last couple years. She’s fully embraced being LGBTQ, holding a Pride flag as she celebrated her 2024 US Championship.
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Two out gay men were the male part of the gold and silver medal ice dancing pairs. Guillaume Cizeron won the gold medal with new ice dance partner Laurence Fournier Beaudry, who formerly competed for Canada. He previously won gold in 2022 and silver in 2018 with is previous partner, Gabriella Papadakis.
They are dancing to a medley of Madonna, including “Vogue” and “Rescue Me.”
Paul Poirier of Canada and his ice dance partner, Piper Gilles, won silver in ice dance. Together they finished seventh and eighth in the last two Winter Olympics. Poirier and Gilles have set their rhythm dance to RuPaul’s “Supermodel (You Better Work).”
Jason Brown, the Team USA men’s singles skater who competed in the 2014 and 2022 Winter Olympics, finished sixth overall in the men’s singles competition in Beijing four years ago. Ranked 12th overall in the world, and the second-highest American, he does have a shot at the Milan Olympics despite a dearth of quad jumps.
Filippo Ambrosini of Italy finished seventh with his pairs partner, Rebecca Ghilardi.
There were 36 publicly out LGBTQ athletes at the last Winter Olympics, in Beijing. Most of not all of these out athletes should be part of Team LGBTQ at these upcoming 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan-Cortina, Italy.
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