Matthew Mitcham

[overtherainbow]

Congratulations to Matthew Mitcham for winning the gold in 10 m diving for Australia.

As many of you may know.. He's the only openly gay guy in the olympics! I'm so happy for him for winning the gold!

[aussie54]

Go Matthew!

[sheepiefarm]

His last dive was quite stunning.
I just loved his reaction to winning.

[ornaru86]

Matthew was awesome. I watched the replay of it, and his victory is quite something, considering the lead the Chinese guy had. That last dive he did was spectacular, and even with the poor result of the Chinese guy, Matt would have still come in second but for his excellent performance.

Makes me proud to be Aussie that we have such talented folk representing.

[hari3669]

For all those who wanted a video : Matthew's six dives and the medal ceremony

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[restenergy]

Thanks for posting the video hari3669. His last dive was especially beautiful, and he was on cloud nine. You can see that many athletes are happy after winning a gold medal, but he was just over the moon. It was so great to see.

[aussie54]

Thank you for that clip, Hari.

I feel especially emotional because he's an Aussie as well as an all round nice bloke, and he was so thrilled to win.

[amber80]

Thanks for the clip Hari! I had already been looking for it on YT, but I couldn't find all of it there yet. I turn my tv on yesterday at exactly the right moment; it was jus his turn for the final dive so I saw him win. I was already happy they aired it here, because diving usually isn't a sport they pay a lot of attention to over here. (Unfortunately.)

[ivaniv]

I have just finished watching the competition with a British commentary, they got a guy who invented that dive Matthew was doing as the last and he was speechless, well for a split second anyway, then he could not stop talking ;D It was perfect, the gold bloody well deserved

[ivaniv]

I did a couple of caps from my HD source. As much as I wanted to cap the dive, it looked shite, even in HD ;D Feel free to hotlink these as much as you like, I did not put them on my PB account








This is a slow motion repeat

[hari3669]

Wonderful caps, Ivan! Thank you! His face shows so much emotion in the last picture! It's great you captured that.

[amber80]

Great caps indeed Ivan! Thanks for that!

I'll post the YT clip GayTime posted on his blog here as well for who hasn't seen it yet. Great interview; very cute...

[aussie54]

Thank you, Ivan!

Those caps are brilliant! I'll definitely be posting them in my LJ.

I'll use my own PB acount, even though you've so generously offered hot-linking just to make them a little smaller.

[nanna]

Another video with some very cute pictures.



I just wish they'd had shown a bit more of his partner in the interview but it was great that he could be there.

[ivaniv]

I think he wouldn't want to be remembered as the only gay in the village, but rather as somebody put under enormous pressure to perform and who managed a perfect dive, got highest score for it in history and won the gold olympic medal. And yet I feel proud for him even if I contributed with absolutely nothing to his victory Funny, how after his fifth dive the commentator said, well it could be a bronze medal, maybe even silver ;D Then the Chinese made a mistake and Matthew used it for 100%.

[Difficult Diva]

Thank you for posting up the video with all 6 of Matthew's dives, Hari. I love how shocked and amazed he was with his win.

[aussie54]

Scans of Matthew from DNA magazine, Issue No. 105.

Cover

Index

Facing page to article

Page 1 of article

Page 2 of article

Closing page of article

[amber80]

Great...

Thankx Aussie!!

[ivaniv]

Thanks for the scans

[aussie54]

You're welcome.

There are some great pictures in that magazine.

[Aldi]

Great scans! He is adorable and then some.