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Yahoo
13-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Gus Kenworthy comes out… of retirement! Eyeing 2026 Olympics
Olympic athlete Gus Kenworthy is dusting off the skis and heading for the slopes after announcing he's coming out of retirement. In a new interview, the 33-year-old freestyle skier told ESPN that he started training again and hopes to compete at the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics. Sign up for the Out Newsletter to keep up with what's new in LGBTQ+ culture and entertainment — delivered three times a week straight (well…) to your inbox! Kenworthy said, "After taking a step away, I realized I miss skiing, and I really want to compete again. I didn't know if I would be able to come back after three-and-a-half years, but I knew I wouldn't be able to after seven and a half. So, it's this Olympics or nothing. I'm never going to have this opportunity again." Advertisement Though Kenworthy considered coming out of retirement before, he suffered two major concussions and contracted COVID-19 that put him through extensive recovery time and prompted an overall hiatus from skiing. Kenworthy revealed that, at the time, he experienced a bit of an identity crisis. Eyeing the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympics, Kenworthy believes that this is the right time to get back on the slopes. "I don't feel like I'm going back into it because I don't know who I am otherwise," Kenworthy said. "I'm going back into it because I can still do it, and because I want to." Advertisement Given that Kenworthy was born in the UK and moved to Colorado when he was two years old, he will be representing Great Britain again at the 2026 Olympics. The athlete, actor, model, and social media influencer announced his retirement from sports after a crash during the men's final. "The final hurrah. My swan song. I'm done. I'm done competing. I've had a career that I'm really, really proud of," Kenworthy told at the time. The athlete also told BBC Sport: "I know that there's an expiration date, and I'm at that date." Kenworthy, one of the first out gay athletes to become a household name, took home the Slopestyle silver medal with Team USA in 2014 (and came out as gay the following year). Then, in 2018, he was one of two out gay men to represent the USA at the PyeongChang Olympics.
Yahoo
13-05-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Gus Kenworthy eyes comeback for fourth Olympics
Gus Kenworthy eyes a fourth Olympics in freeskiing, planning to return to competition next season for the first time since the 2022 Beijing Games, his agent confirmed. "After taking a step away, I realized I miss skiing and I really want to compete again," the 33-year-old Kenworthy said, according to "I didn't know if I would be able to come back after three-and-a-half years, but I knew I wouldn't be able to after seven and a half. So, it's this Olympics or nothing. I'm never going to have this opportunity again." Advertisement Kenworthy was part of a U.S. podium sweep in the Olympic debut of men's ski slopestyle in 2014, taking silver. After coming out in 2015, he placed 12th at the 2018 PyeongChang Games. He then switched representation to Great Britain (he was born in England) for the 2022 Olympics, where he was eighth in the halfpipe in what he said would be his last competition. Kenworthy dealt with a concussion and COVID-19 in the lead-up to the Beijing Games. "My whole goal in China was to land the run I had been training as best as I could, and I didn't do that," Kenworthy said, according to ESPN. "I had already announced that it was going to be my last contest. I was ready to be done, and I walked away with my head held high. But it wasn't what I wanted. It was hard to walk away on a sour note." Advertisement Last week, video of Kenworthy taking a ski halfpipe run was posted on his social media. "Took 3.5 years off. This is 3.5 days back. What do you think? Shall we go for it?! ," the caption read. The world's current top men's halfpipe skiers include Americans Alex Ferreira, a silver and bronze medalist at the last two Olympics, and Nick Goepper, who shared the 2014 Olympic slopestyle podium with Kenworthy. "I want to medal (in Italy). I don't know how else to say it," Kenworthy said, according to ESPN. "I don't want to say that's what success looks like because then I'm setting myself up for the possibility of this experience not to feel successful. But that is my dream. If I qualify for the Games and make it back to the Olympics and land my run, that will feel like success. That's what I didn't get in Beijing." Chloe Kim Who is qualified for Team USA for 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics? Chloe Kim was the first athlete to clinch an Olympic spot. Three more have since joined her.
NBC Sports
12-05-2025
- Sport
- NBC Sports
Gus Kenworthy eyes comeback for fourth Olympics
Gus Kenworthy eyes a fourth Olympics in freeskiing, planning to return to competition next season for the first time since the 2022 Beijing Games, his agent confirmed. 'After taking a step away, I realized I miss skiing and I really want to compete again,' the 33-year-old Kenworthy said, according to 'I didn't know if I would be able to come back after three-and-a-half years, but I knew I wouldn't be able to after seven and a half. So, it's this Olympics or nothing. I'm never going to have this opportunity again.' Kenworthy was part of a U.S. podium sweep in the Olympic debut of men's ski slopestyle in 2014, taking silver. After coming out in 2015, he placed 12th at the 2018 PyeongChang Games. He then switched representation to Great Britain (he was born in England) for the 2022 Olympics, where he was eighth in the halfpipe in what he said would be his last competition. Kenworthy dealt with a concussion and COVID-19 in the lead-up to the Beijing Games. 'My whole goal in China was to land the run I had been training as best as I could, and I didn't do that,' Kenworthy said, according to ESPN. 'I had already announced that it was going to be my last contest. I was ready to be done, and I walked away with my head held high. But it wasn't what I wanted. It was hard to walk away on a sour note.' Last week, video of Kenworthy taking a ski halfpipe run was posted on his social media. 'Took 3.5 years off. This is 3.5 days back. What do you think? Shall we go for it?! 😏,' the caption read. The world's current top men's halfpipe skiers include Americans Alex Ferreira, a silver and bronze medalist at the last two Olympics, and Nick Goepper, who shared the 2014 Olympic slopestyle podium with Kenworthy. 'I want to medal (in Italy). I don't know how else to say it,' Kenworthy said, according to ESPN. 'I don't want to say that's what success looks like because then I'm setting myself up for the possibility of this experience not to feel successful. But that is my dream. If I qualify for the Games and make it back to the Olympics and land my run, that will feel like success. That's what I didn't get in Beijing.' Nick Zaccardi,
CBC
05-04-2025
- Sport
- CBC
Canadian surfer Erin Brooks finishes 9th at El Salvador event
Social Sharing Canadian Erin Brooks finished ninth at the Surf City El Salvador Pro on Saturday after being edged out by American Bella Kenworthy in a tight round-of-16 battle. It was a battle of teenage rookies on the World Surf League's elite Championship Tour in La Libertad, El Salvador. Brooks is 17 while Kenworthy, a former elite skateboarder whose father is well-known surf photographer Jason Kenworthy, is 18. It was a back-and-forth heat, with both surfers looking to put together the highest-scoring pair of waves. A 7.00 moved Brooks ahead with a combined 11.77 score but Kenworthy answered with a 5.83 that, combined with an earlier score of 6.33, put her in the lead at 12.16. Brooks then ran out of time to catch her. Kenworthy moved on to face American Gabriela Bryan in quarterfinal action. The event is the fourth stop of the season on the Championship Tour. Brooks came to El Salvador sixth in the standings after finishing third last time out at the MEO Rip Curl Pro Portugal in March, fifth at the Surf Abu Dhabi Pro and ninth in the season-opening Lexus Pipe Pro in Hawaii. Brooks became the first Canadian to earn full-time status on the Championship Tour by finishing in the top five of the second-tier Challenger Series last year. She won in her only previous appearance on the Championship Tour as a wild card, defeating Olympic silver medallist Tatiana Weston-Webb of Brazil last August in the final of the Fiji Pro. After El Salvador, the tour shifts to Australia (for three straight events), the United States, Brazil, South Africa and Tahiti before closing with the WSL Finals in Fiji from Aug. 27 to Sept. 4. The season opened with 18 competitors on the women's side — the top 10 finishers from the 2024 Championship Tour, the top five from the 2024 Challenger Series, two WSL season wild cards and one event wild card. The field will be cut to 12 after seven events and then five for the season-ending WSL Finals. The 36-competitor men's field will be reduced to 24 at the midseason cut and then five ahead of Fiji. The winning prize money ranges from $80,000 U.S. in the season opener to $100,000 after the midseason cut and $200,000 for the WSL Finals. Brooks started surfing at nine when her family moved to Hawaii from Texas. She has Canadian ties through her American-born father Jeff, who is a dual American-Canadian citizen, and her grandfather who was born and raised in Montreal Brooks gained her Canadian citizenship last year after a lengthy legal battle that limited her Olympic qualifying opportunities to the ISA World Surfing Games last March in Puerto Rico. Brooks, whose family also has a home in Tofino, B.C., fell short and had to watch the Olympic surfing competition in Tahiti from afar.
Yahoo
27-03-2025
- Yahoo
‘Heart dropped;' Man's car stolen during crime spree
A man is worried he will never see his car again. [DOWNLOAD: Free WHIO-TV News app for alerts as news breaks] Multijurisdictional auto task forces, like the Auto Suppression Task Force in Dayton, are one of the factors decreasing vehicle thefts nationwide. The National Insurance Crime Bureau announced vehicle thefts are down 17 percent across the country. However, one Englewood man is on the wrong side of that statistic. TRENDING STORIES: Person dies of rabies after contracting virus from organ transplant Bagpiper killed while scuba diving; son who vanished 4 years ago found dead at home Brand owned by O'Charley's opening restaurant in Miami Twp 'I got out of bed and walked down and saw my glass everywhere ... heart dropped,' Kaden Kenworthy said. Kenworthy had his Chevrolet Camaro for just over a year before it was stolen from his apartment parking lot. He reported it to the police — a week later, they found out the suspect used a rental car to go on a spree. 'They used that rental car to steal a car and then stole my car and a car from the apartment behind me,' Kenworthy said. Kenworthy said he thinks the person or persons who took his car could be part of a complex vehicle theft ring. 'Maybe they've been watching for a bit. It's definitely crazy to learn that. The cops told me nowadays that is a new thing they do. They'll reprogram your car from a tablet or something with a key,' Kenworthy said. Englewood police last spotted Kenworthy's stolen car going southbound on Main Street with the help of cameras. The vehicle information was logged into a database. Kenworthy isn't sure he will ever see his car again. [SIGN UP: WHIO-TV Daily Headlines Newsletter]
