Tokyo’s out Olympians are also almost exclusively from Europe, North and South America, and Australia/New Zealand.Its count is now up to 168, three times the number that Outsports tallied at the last Olympics in Rio de Janeiro in 2016. The gay website has been tallying the number of publicly out gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer and nonbinary athletes in Tokyo.
At the Tokyo Games, the picture is changing.
Back in 2013, when Olympic diver Tom Daley announced that he was dating a man, the number of gay Olympians who felt able and willing to speak openly about their private lives could be counted on a few hands.