Basketball player Sue Bird, who came out in 2017, is currently dating US women's soccer player Megan Rapinoe.
Figure skater Johnny Weir came out in his January 2011 memoir titled "Welcome to My World".
Megan Rapinoe of the US women's soccer team revealed she was gay in an interview with Out magazine shortly before the 2012 London Olympics.
Transgender tennis player Renee Richards, captain of the Yale tennis team as a man, was denied the right to play in the 1976 US Open at age 42 after transitioning the year before. When the New York Supreme Court ruled in her favor in 1977 allowing her to join the women's tour, Richards got death threats, needed bodyguards, and saw scores of women rivals drop out of events she entered.
Canadian pairs figure skater Eric Radford, seen here with partner Meagan Duhamel, came out in 2014. He is the first openly gay man to have won a gold medal at any Winter Olympics.