“When you're able to love and appreciate and take pride with yourself, that makes everything easier. It makes it easier to train, it makes it easier to be in the gym, and it makes it easier for everyone else to accept and love you.”

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.