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Friday 23 October 2015

In this Wednesday, Oct. 21, MURPHY’S
2015, photo, Gus Kenworthy, LAW
a freestyle skier who won a
silver medal in Sochi, poses in Murphy sets HR record to win NLCS MVP
his home in Denver.
New York Mets’ Daniel Murphy cele-
Associated Press brates after hitting a two-run home run
during the eighth inning of Game 4 of
Freestyle skier the National League baseball champi-
comes out, says onship series against the Chicago Cubs
Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2015, in Chicago.
Sochi wasn’t Associated Press
right time Page 19

EDDIE PELLS
PAT GRAHAM
AP Sports Writers
DENVER (AP) — When Gus
Kenworthy would let his
mind wander into how his
perfect Olympics might
play out, he pictured a
certain scene.
He’d land his best tricks on
his final run, win a medal
and then — the capper
— jump into the stands, ski
boots and all, to share a
big hug and kiss with the
man who meant so much
to him.
“That would’ve been an
amazing way to come
out,” said Kenworthy, the
freestyle skier who won the
silver medal in Sochi.
But the timing, to say noth-
ing of the country, wasn’t
quite right to tell the world
he was gay. And so Ken-
worthy left Russia in Febru-
ary 2014 known best as the
compassionate daredevil
who adopted several stray
dogs he came across in
the mountains — and as
the man who was part of
an historic U.S. sweep of
the first Olympic ski slope-
style contest.

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