Ian Thorpe is an Australian sporting hero and until recently a very tortured soul, subject to long periods of deep depression. After more than a decade of denial he has recently acknowledged that he is gay. It is one thing to come out when you work in theater, an all together different thing when you are one of a nation's greatest sports stars. The growing acceptance of homosexuals in sports together with his own increasing maturity presumably made it possible for Thorpe to finally break out of a life in the closet and it is to be hoped that this brings him some measure of personal peace of mind.
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