Matthew Mitcham of Australia
Going into the final dives of the men's 10-meter platform competition, it looked like China was about to sweep all eight diving gold medals, with
Zhou Luxin and Huo Liang in first and second place. But Australia's
Matthew Mitcham, trailing the leader Zhou by more than 30 points, went for broke with a 3.8 degree of difficulty dive, a back two and a half somersault with two and a half twists. He got four perfect 10s and scored 112.10, the highest score in the history of Olympic diving, to snatch the gold from his Chinese competitors. According to this
Shanghaiist post, Mitcham is the only openly gay man competing at these Olympics.
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Beijing Olympics,
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Matthew Mitcham,
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Zhou Luxin
