“I definitely carry a little bit of a burden with me, being a gay athlete going to the Olympics. I think that there's pressure on me... It presents an amazing opportunity, and I think that it kind of gives us a chance to shed people's misconceptions and just kind of, like, break down barriers.”

British-American freestyle skier, actor, and YouTuber

Gus Kenworthy is a British-American freestyle skier, actor, and YouTuber. Born Augustus Richard Kenworthy, he competes in slopestyle, halfpipe, and big air, and won silver in men’s slopestyle at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. He later represented Great Britain, and also moved into screen work, playing Chet Clancy in the ninth season of American Horror Story, 1984. He retired in 2022, then returned from retirement to compete at the 2026 Winter Olympics.