Freestyle skier Gus Kenworthy won a silver medal at the 2014 Olympics and multiple X Games gold medals and multiple world titles in his discipline. He came out as gay in a 2015 cover story with ESPN The Magazine, saying, "I never got to be proud of what I did in Sochi because I felt so horrible about what I didn't do. I didn't want to come out as the silver medalist from Sochi. I wanted to come out as the best freeskier in the world."
For most of his life, Kenworthy wrote on Facebook, he'd been "afraid to embrace that truth about myself. Recently though, I've gotten to the point where the pain of holding onto the lie is greater than the fear of letting go, and I'm very proud to finally be letting my guard down."