Tom Bosworth: British racer walker comes out as gay

Race walker Tom Bosworth has come out as gay on today's Victoria Derbyshire show.

Tom Bosworth, British Championships, Birmingham, July 2015

He won this year's British Championships walk (in the July rain in Birmingham), has competed for Great Britain at the recent World Athletics Championships and is set to head to Rio next year.  He follows in Tom Daley's footsteps in coming out, which he cited as "...a huge step in the right direction, paving the way for others to follow suit..."  And I hope that he will continue to be accepted and supported by the athletics community.