Openly LGBTQ Olympians Would Rank 14th In Medal Wins If They Were A Country

[Jilly_in_VA]

If all of the publicly out LGBTQ athletes at the Olympics represented a country under a single rainbow flag they'd be coming in 14th in the world for their medal count.

That's the assessment of Outsports, which has been tracking the athletes — 168 of them — and the group is tied with Brazil and Switzerland.

British diver Tom Daley, who is competing in the games for the fourth time, is the only gold medalist in the group. French judoka Amandine Buchard won a silver medal in just 16 seconds, while three members of the USA women's softball team — Ally Carda, Amanda Chidester, Haylie McCleney — also nabbed second place. Meanwhile, Larissa Franklin and Joey Lye on the Canadian women's softball team took home bronze. And, British equestrian Carl Hester earned a bronze to add to his gold and silver medals collection from previous Olympics.

https://www.npr.org/2021/07/27/1021458493/lgbtq-athletes-are-racking-up-medals-at-the-olympics

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1. We fell to 18th now

still tied with Brazil but behind Taiwan and Switzerland.

[Jilly_in_VA]

2. Don't worry

It'll pickup again. Did you count the women's 3x3 basketball gold? Pretty sure there's at least one on that team. (Stef Dolson, I believe, is out and proud)

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3. No so that put us much higher on the list.

that puts us 12th, b/w Canada and Hungary

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4. So Romania.