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Jock Talk: Out athletes score at Tokyo Olympics

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Notes on the concluded Tokyo Olympic Games as Japan figures out how much (if any) of the estimated $20 billion-plus it spent to stage the event it can recoup while the International Olympic Committee collects its $3 billion-plus. • These Olympics were the biggest challenge to the heterosexist/gender-binary underpinnings of sports we've ever seen.

On the gross level there were projections that more than 180 LGBTQ+ individuals competed and won 32 medals — above the Netherlands and just shy of the total for Australia.

That swamps the total "out" participation in all past Olympics, winter and summer. Highlights included gay British diver Tom Daley scoring gold and knitting a cardigan; nonbinary midfielder Quinn, who uses one name, becoming the

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