Came across this transcript of an Australian interview show from earlier this year - apologies if it was posted earlier:

\"The Sports Factor\"

Great link! Hope Ian Roberts is a better actor than some other muscle-men like Claude van Damme and that Terminator fraud. (though I can watch van Damme just for the visuals).

I'm glad they all seem to focus on courage and self-esteem as being the big difference between the out athlete and the closeted one, rather than career and money. The later two may be the reason no major sport USA athlete has come out but there are more important things in life for many of us.

Unfortunately physical safety is another concern here. We are still very much a culture that settles it's differences and states it's opinions by violence. Note that gun control is not nearly as vilified in Canada, Australia or much of the western world, as it is here.