Welcome to my world.... : More Than A Third Of LGBTI Athletes Won Medals In Rio

That's more than Team USA
From: NewNowNext

35 percent of the record-breaking 53 out athletes competing in the 2016 Rio Olympics took home medals, either solo or in a group.

This in comparison to leading Olympic contenders the United States, Great Britain and China, who saw roughly 20 percent of their athletes take home medals.

If all the openly LGBTI athletes were consolidated onto one team, their five gold medals, six silver medals and three bronze medals would have placed them in 16th overall, ahead of countries like New Zealand, Canada and Kenya.

Though the 2016 Games were not without their controversy, including journalists outing athletes and fans shouting homophobic chants at players, they also saw empowering coming out moments, joyful proclamations of same-sex love and plenty of proudly out athletes taking to the Olympic podiums.

Here’s hoping the 2020 Games in Tokyo will be even gayer!