Olympic Swimmer Joins
Outgames
Olympic champion Mark Tewksbury, is proud
to announce that Ingi Thor Jonsson, a former Olympic
swimming champion from
Iceland, has joined the
Athletes’ Circle of the 1st World Outgames
Montréal 2006. In addition to joining the Circle, Mr.
Jonsson will act as an ambassador for the Outgames at many
major gay sports events around the globe. Mr. Jonsson is
currently in negotiation with the British Broadcasting
Corporation (BBC) to explore the possibility of having a
film crew to follow his travels to the various tournaments
leading up to the 1st World Outgames in 2006.
“We are extremely proud to have the support of Mr. Jonsson.
His experience and expertise as an elite athlete will be a
true asset to the 1st World Outgames. As well,
having a media organization as respected and prestigious as
the BBC involved would be an incredible bonus in helping us
spread the word about the Outgames throughout the world,”
said Mark Tewksbury,
Co-President of the 1st World Outgames, and
himself an Olympic swimming champion.
Ingi Thor Jonsson is currently an activist in the LGBT
sports movement. Among his other accomplishments, he
represented Iceland
at the 1984 Olympics in
Los Angeles. He is passionately
committed to the battle against homophobia in sport and
enjoyed medal-winning performances at the EuroGames in
Munich in 2004 and at
Utrecht in 2005, as well as at the
Manchester PrideGames in 2005.
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