Tag: Tokyo Olympics
New Zealand weightlifter Laurel Hubbard was among the targets. The IOC are investigating.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is investigating several ugly anti-LGBT comments made on air by Russian television personalities.
Russia under the leadership of President Vladimir Putin has taken an increasingly hostile approach to LGBT+ rights in recent years,...
The Olympian says “age has caught up” with her, hinting at an exit from competitive weightlifting.
New Zealander weightlifter Laurel Hubbard has hinted that Tokyo 2020 will be her first and last Olympics games.
Hubbard competed in the +87kg category weightlifting event on Monday, becoming the first transgender athlete to...
Kiwi weightlifter Laurel Hubbard has fallen short in her bid to win a medal at the Tokyo Olympics, although she will leave Japan having made history as the first transgender woman to compete in a solo event.
The 43-year-old was competing in the 87kg+ category but wasn’t able to record...
“I hope that any young LGBT person out there can see that no matter how alone you feel right now, you are not alone. You can achieve anything.”
British diver Tom Daley has paid an emotional tribute to the LGBT community after winning Olympic gold in the men’s synchronised 10-metre...
He is the first kiwi to represent Aotearoa in men’s diving at the Olympics in 37 years and he will do it flying the rainbow flag. Anton Down-Jenkins is not only a skilled athlete but also a big personality filled with hilarious anecdotes and banter for days! He talks...
New Zealand is sending nine LGBT athletes to the Tokyo 2021 Olympics.
With records set to be smashed in less than five days’ time at the Tokyo Olympics, the event itself will break one with the largest inclusion of LGBT athletes in the history of the games.
OutSports reports that...
Judy Virago shares her own experience of being a trans person in sports and fitness spaces, and believes after 15 years of trans athletes being eligible for the Olympics it is time one wore the silver fern and showed the world that ‘they are us.’
The mood was mighty cold...
Hubbard makes history as the world’s first-ever transgender olympian!
Weightlifter Laurel Hubbard will represent New Zealand at the upcoming Tokyo Olympics, making history as the first-ever transgender Olympian.
Hubbard will compete in the women’s 87-kilogram category. Her inclusion was all but assured after the International weightlifting Federation gave her transgender athletes...
