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âThe focus had to be on the iceâ: Robin Cousins on skating and his double life as a gay Olympian
The 1980 BBC Sports Personality winner talks to Donald McRae about the road to glory at Lake Placid while having to keep his sexuality secret
www.theguardian.com
He was such a natural skater that “a professional coach went up to my mum and said: ‘Where does your son skate?’ He wouldn’t believe it when she said I hadn’t been on the ice before and the only thing which convinced him was when my mum said: ‘We’re from Bristol. We don’t have an ice rink.’ He then told her that an ice rink was about to be built in Bristol.”