When to watch Team LGBTQ athletes at the Olympics — highlights coming up
The LGBTQ representation at the Olympics is at record levels. Our schedule will ensure you don't miss the key moments. The post When to watch Team LGBTQ athletes at the Olympics — highlights coming up appeared first on Outsports.
The action at the Olympic Games continues.
There are 48 competitions within 32 sports on the Paris 2024 schedule, with the majority now underway.
There is Team LGBTQ representation in more than 30 of those competitions.
Outsports is tracking the fortunes of at least 193 publicly out LGBTQ athletes at these Games.
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Team LGBTQ at the 2024 Paris Summer Games
The list of out gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer and nonbinary Olympians will continue to grow.
To help you plan your viewing, here are some moments coming up on our specialist LGBTQ schedule that we recommend watching…
Times given are Paris, CEST — adjust for U.K., -1 BST; New York, -6 EDT; L.A., -9 PDT
Saturday, August 3
From 8am: Rafaela Silva, Amandine Buchard, Timo Cavelius, Raz Hershko, Alice Bellandi, Sanne van Dijke, Guusje Steenhuis, judo
All six countries represented within Team LGBTQ for Olympic judo in Paris will take part in the mixed team competition, held at the Grand Palais. It’s the second Games at which the event has been held — France, with Buchard in their line-up, are the defending champions. She was the first out LGBTQ athlete to win a medal at these Olympics, a -52kg bronze. Since then, Italy’s Bellandi (gold, -78kg) and Israel’s Hershko (silver, +78kg) have also been on the podium. Cavelius, the first out gay man in Olympic judo, will be part of the Germany team; Van Dijke and Steenhuis will represent the Netherlands; and Silva is with Brazil.
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9.30am: Emma Twigg, rowing
The 37-year-old New Zealander is making her fifth appearance at the Olympic Games, an incredible testament to her longevity and dedication to the sport. She is the reigning Olympic champion in single sculls and goes into Saturday morning’s final having won her heat, quarterfinal and semifinal — in the latter, she set the fastest time of the week so far. The Tokyo Games were Twigg’s first since coming out publicly, and she said being open about her marriage to wife Charlotte was part of what motivated her to give the Olympics one more shot. Since then, she has also become a mum, to two-year-old Tommy.
10.50am: Regina Salmons, Nina Castagna, rowing
The U.S. women’s eight have a great chance of an Olympic medal, having won silver at the World Championships in Belgrade last year behind Romania. Castagna, the team’s cox, and Salmons are among a group of rowers in the American team who are out as LGBTQ. Castagna told Outsports earlier this month: “Our queer identities don’t necessarily impact our athletic performances, but our confidence and security in the training space definitely does.” The Americans were runners-up to their Romanian rivals in the heats, sending them into the repechage, which they then won to reach the final.
11.59am: Dan Jervis, swimming
Jervis goes in Heat 3 of the 1500m freestyle, and will have to be one of the eight fastest swimmers from across all four heats to qualify for his second consecutive Olympic final, which will be held on Sunday night. Since the Tokyo Games, where he finished fifth, the 28-year-old Team GB athlete has come out publicly as gay — his boyfriend is expected to be poolside at the La Defense Arena to cheer him on, just as he was in April when Jervis won at the GB Olympic trials in a time just shy of his personal best.
From 3.30pm: Evy Leibfarth, kayak cross
Leibfarth won bronze in the C1 canoe slalom on Wednesday, her first-ever Olympic medal at her second Games. Just 20 years old, she is already a history maker as the first U.S. woman to qualify for an Olympics in three different canoe and kayak events. Leibfarth began her Paris bid in the kayak slalom (K1), finishing 15th in the semifinals. Then she superbly made the podium at Vaires-sur-Marne, having only just squeezed into the C1 final. Her third event is the thrilling kayak cross, making its inaugural appearance at a Games — Leibfarth ranked sixth in Friday’s time trial. The first round and repechage are on Saturday, the heats on Sunday, and the quarterfinals, semis and final on Monday.
From 7.50pm: Sha’Carri Richardson, track
Richardson, the fastest woman in the world this year, made her Olympic debut on Friday in Heat 1 of the 100m first round in the Stade de France — she won the race in a time of 10.94. Michelle-Lee Ahye and Ana Azevedo, fellow Team LGBTQ hopes, sadly failed to qualify. The final will follow on Saturday night.
10.08pm: Beatriz Ferreira v Kellie Harrington, boxing
This semifinal in the women’s lightweight category pits two Team LGBTQ athletes against each other, in an excting Olympic rematch. Ireland’s Harrington is the reigning champion — now aged 34, she has hinted that this may be her farewell appearance at the Games. In Tokyo three years ago, she beat Ferreira in the final. Will the Brazilian exact revenge or will Harrington march on to another gold-medal bout?
Sunday, August 4
From 10am: Cathrine Laudrup-Dufour, Frederic Wandres, Carl Hester, equestrian
This is the Grand Prix Freestyle, the conclusion of the dressage competition at the Palace of Versailles. Denmark’s Laudrup-Dufour and her horse — also called Freestyle — were second overall in qualifying, while Team GB’s Hester (at his seventh Games) on Fame, had the seventh-best score. Wandres, who qualified 10th, is at his first Olympics representing Germany, who have an illustrious history having won dressage team gold at every Games except 1984. A strong chance of medals here for Team LGBTQ.
2pm: Marianne Vos, road cycling
Vos already had an Olympic gold medal to her name when she took the women’s road race title at London 2012 — she had won the points race in track cycling at the Beijing velodrome four years previously. Now 37, the Dutchwoman goes for road race glory again in Paris. She is a legend in her sport with multiple world titles in different disciplines but is also known to be very private. It was therefore a surprise in July 2022 when after winning the opening stage of the Tour de France Femmes, she spoke publicly for the first time about being in a long-term relationship with fellow pro cyclist, Moniek Tenniglo.
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