sprinter

I joined my high school track team because I was too short to play basketball and I liked the idea of being an athlete. I was and still am naturally pretty athletic, but I was a city kid who played street ball. We moved to the suburbs, where my peers had been on traveling teams and went to hoity-toity tennis camps before the umbillical cord had been cut. So no, I couldn't make the basketball squad, no matter how many times I'd try. But I could run in a straight line and sometimes in a circle, so I became a sprinter.

At least two Swedish athletes competed at the track and field world championships in Moscow this week while wearing rainbow nail polish.

The opening ceremony of the 2012 London Olympic Games is a little more than a month away, so with that, let’s take a closer look at just a few of the U.S. Women’s National Team gold medal hopefuls.

When some people think of sports, they don't necessarily think about gays — a big mistake. Here is just a slice of some of 2010's biggest stories within the overlap of LGBT people and sports. Whether it was about their talent, gender or sexuality, those influential people who made sports headlines this year included Lisa Howe, Lana Lawless, Kye Allums, Katie Miller, Caster Semenya, Ireen Wust, Martina Navratilova and Serena Williams.

I like a good boycott. Chick-fil-A's CEO is an unabashed antigay donor? Fine, I don't need his deep-fried, sodium-chicken anyway. We even un-registered from Target for my 2010 wedding and switched to Bed Bath & Beyond because the CEO had donated to an antigay organization. The spouse and I are gangster like that. Quite frankly, I can thoroughly live the rest of my life without Russian vodka. I'm more of a craft beer or tiny winery type of gal, anyway.

Meet Caitlin Cahow, one of the three openly gay delegates, representing the United States this month in Sochi, Russia at the Olympic games.