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]Ian Thorpe: I'm gay, says former Australian Olympic swimmer
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Five-time Olympic swimming champion Ian Thorpe has revealed he is gay in an interview on Australian television.
The 31-year-old told British journalist Sir Michael Parkinson on Channel 10: "I've thought about this for a long time. I'm not straight."
Thorpe had previously denied he was gay and wrote in his 2012 autobiography 'This Is Me' that he was heterosexual.
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]Ian Thorpe: I'm gay, says former Australian Olympic swimmer
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Five-time Olympic swimming champion Ian Thorpe has revealed he is gay in an interview on Australian television.
The 31-year-old told British journalist Sir Michael Parkinson on Channel 10: "I've thought about this for a long time. I'm not straight."
Thorpe had previously denied he was gay and wrote in his 2012 autobiography 'This Is Me' that he was heterosexual.
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