First Gay-Man To Win At Olympics?!
This poor athlete is being a little bit shafted because he is gay, and not in the way the news usually portrays. Eric Radford almost didn't come out because he didn't want his being gay to overshadow his athletic performance, and it seems that he has a good level of precognition because that is exactly what is happening.
My bit of reason and common sense for 2018 is that no one should care about the sexual orientation and that it shouldn't be brought up at all. I'm pretty bad at giving words to this feeling that I have, but performance, personality, intelligence, ability, those are the things that should matter. His being gay shouldn't have even been brought up at all especially right after his win.
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I'm more amazed that it took this long for a(n open) homosexual to win gold, not only just at the Winter Olympics but specifically figure skating. I know that's stereotyping, but since the Winter Olympics have been running for nearly a century I would have figured at least one winner would have been said stereotype.
I guess that's kinda why it's important to some people, because it's been so long without a win. Sure, it's kinda meaningless because what genitals type of you wanna rub against generally does not dictate athletic ability (nor to my knowledge inhibits ability to participate in the Winter Olympics, which holy shit that's on? I really do not miss having a TV with connection to free2air / Foxtel) but I guess if that thought makes some people happy then all the more power to them because I don't really see the harm in it.
But again, first gay figure skater to win gold? I have my doubts. I know he's the first "openly" gay but come on, no way is he the first.
Might be stereotyping, but I get where you are coming from. I also don't even see the harm of people getting excited about it. I think it's stupid personally, as you said it really does not dictate athletic ability, but I take a different issue with it. This guy stated that he was hesitant to come out because he thought it might overshadow his athletic ability - Now it has, despite the fact he doesn't want it. Maybe it's not so much an issue as it is that I feel bad for the guy. From now on he's going down in history as the gay guy that won, (who like you said, likely isn't even the first) instead of just the guy that won.
Also, hell yes the Olympics are on, it takes up all the Twitter moments and it's trending there a good half the day. I honestly don't care much for it myself, but hey if it gets me clicks I'll talk the hell out of the topic. I wouldn't touch watching it myself on the TV... But there are also a lot of talks about just what North and South Korea are doing during them, as well as American leaders.
I honestly didn't even know that world leaders paid enough mind to those things for the news to talk about it. Yet... OMFG, Why do people care so much about it?