Seven players on the Canadian women’s ice hockey team are openly LGBTQ, making it the gayest Winter Olympic team of all time.
Canada's Melodie Daoust, center, is marked by Switzerland's Dominique Rueegg during the women's semifinal match of the Winter Olympic ice hockey competition Monday in Beijing.Feb. 17, 2022, 3:27 AM UTCThe Canadian and U.S. women’s ice hockey teams face off Wednesday in the Olympic finals, looking to settle the score on one of the world’s biggest sports rivalries for another four years.
With every Olympics, visibility around LGBTQ athletes grows, thanks to both individual competitors and an increase in the sheer number of athletes who are publicly out. Outsports estimated that at least, from 14 different countries, are competing in Beijing. That’s double the amount from 2018, in Pyeongchang, but significantly less than the last Summer Olympics, which typically has more than triple the number of athletes competing compared to the Winter Games.
Megan Rapinoe of the U.S. celebrates after the U.S. won the women's bronze medal match against Australia at the 2020 Summer Olympic Games in Kashima, Japan, on Aug. 5.It’s similar to the effect that top athletes, such as Megan Rapinoe and Abby Wambach, have had in women’s soccer. As Rapinoe, Wambach and many other LGBTQ players have been vocal about their personal lives, the sport has seen an increase in queer visibility and mainstream acceptance of its queer athletes.
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