In an exclusive interview with Helen Weathers of the Daily Mail, former Wales and British & Irish Lions captain Gareth Thomas announces publicly that he is gay.
"'Just because you are gay, doesn't mean you fancy every man who walks the planet,' he says. I don't want to be known as a gay rugby player. I am a rugby player first and foremost. I am a man.
'I just happen to be gay. It's irrelevant. What I choose to do when I close the door at home has nothing to do with what I have achieved in rugby. IIt's pretty tough for me being the only international rugby player prepared to break the taboo.
'Statistically I can't be the only one, but I'm not aware of any other gay player still in the game.
'I'd love for it, in ten years' time, not to even be an issue in sport, and for people to say: "So what?" '
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