I keep getting adverts for an auction of his Olympic medals.
Charity OP. He gave one of his medals to Jeannie White the mother of Ryan White and one to his diving coach.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | August 15, 2023 5:10 AM |
I thought I saw some of his Speedos and tennis bracelets for sale on the RealReal
by Anonymous | reply 2 | August 15, 2023 5:31 AM |
I heard Brian Boitano kicked him in the cuntbone!
by Anonymous | reply 3 | August 15, 2023 5:59 AM |
His diving coach Sammy Lee was my eyes, ears and throat doc. He was a little guy with little guy complex.
by Anonymous | reply 4 | August 15, 2023 6:14 AM |
No one should be allowed to give away or sell an Olympic medal.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | August 15, 2023 6:36 AM |
[quote] "No one should be allowed to give away or sell an Olympic medal."
R5 = A.M.P.A.S.
by Anonymous | reply 6 | August 15, 2023 6:56 AM |
Why R5? It’s theres to do whatever with.
by Anonymous | reply 7 | August 15, 2023 7:08 AM |
It's disrespectful to the spirt and nobility of the games and to the many athletes who strove to achieve a medal but for various reasons were unsuccessful. Selling an Olympic medal is the same as spitting on Michelle Kwan.
by Anonymous | reply 8 | August 15, 2023 8:03 AM |
interestingly, you can't sell an Oscar statuette: " Oscar winners cannot sell or dispose of the Oscar statuette without first offering to sell it to the Academy for $1. "Award winners have no rights whatsoever in the Academy copyright or goodwill in the Oscar statuette or in its trademark," the Academy stated. Notably, each trophy reportedly costs over $400 to produce. "
But you can sell Nobel prizes, Golden Globes, Emmys, etc.
by Anonymous | reply 9 | August 15, 2023 8:23 AM |
No offense, but how many people want a Greg Louganis Olympic medal? At least for more than $5.
by Anonymous | reply 10 | August 15, 2023 8:25 AM |
Many people, I'd think. There are people into collecting memorabilia.
by Anonymous | reply 11 | August 15, 2023 8:28 AM |
Also, the medal is going to be worth a lot more than $5 purely for the metal - "Olympic gold medals are required to be made from at least 92.5% silver, and must contain a minimum of six grams of gold."
Medals rarely come up for sale but Cubans are more likely to sell theirs because they need money. "Cuban shooter Leuris Pupo’s gold medal from the London 2012 Olympics fetched $73,200, and his compatriot Iván Pedroso’s long jump gold medal from Sydney 2000 went for $71,335."
by Anonymous | reply 12 | August 15, 2023 8:33 AM |
The Mexican who won the billion dollar Powerball will probably buy these
by Anonymous | reply 13 | September 14, 2023 5:53 PM |
His personal value has decreased significantly, because despite being a person of something, he got really old for having been out in the sun for too long.
by Anonymous | reply 14 | September 14, 2023 6:01 PM |
After spending your entire life perfecting a sport, if you cannot convert it to endorsement deals and such, you really aren't going to have a lot of money.
It's not like he could start a career working in finance or something. Eric Heiden got a medical degree from Stanford and became an othopedic surgeon, but that's an exception. Few of these elite level athletes in non-lucrative sports have many options available to them.
Besides endorsements, he might have been able to coach other divers, but after transferring colleges a few times, he ended up as a theater and dance major - not particularly lucrative. Few Olympic athletes became Hollywood stars.
by Anonymous | reply 15 | September 14, 2023 6:37 PM |
[quote] Few Olympic athletes became Hollywood stars.
The only two successful examples I can think of both played Tarzan. Buster Crabbe ( gold medal in the 400 Meter Swimming Freestyle at the 1932 Summer Olympics) and Johnny Weissmuller ( 5 Olympic Gold Medals 1924-1928 for swimming. Broke the record in each race, and one bronze medal for water polo at the Olympic Games in 1924)
by Anonymous | reply 16 | September 14, 2023 6:51 PM |
Greg doesn't have children to leave his medals to, so he can leave them in his will to a charity or a museum, or he can raise some decent money to allow him a comfortable nest egg. He never made much money from sports endorsements when he was younger due to discrimination against gays. I don't blame him, he can make over $2M from the auction proceeds, so why not?
by Anonymous | reply 17 | September 14, 2023 7:23 PM |
I'm Team Louganis. If he wants to sell them, why not. He's a lovely man and tries to give back to the diving community as well as being a great LGBTQ spokesman.
by Anonymous | reply 18 | September 14, 2023 7:48 PM |
Greg Louganis, was always beautiful, inside and outside.
by Anonymous | reply 19 | September 14, 2023 7:57 PM |
Why would anyone want them?
by Anonymous | reply 20 | September 14, 2023 10:09 PM |
[quote]Why would anyone want them?
Why wouldn’t someone who is interested in sports memorabilia want them?
by Anonymous | reply 21 | September 14, 2023 10:44 PM |
The man is an Olympic legend in his field. Let’s not forget being openly gay cost him a lot of $ . The hate he had to endure was ridiculous. I enjoy pointless bitchery as much as the next homo, but damn, give the guy a break. He took one for the team. I wish him nothing but happiness.
by Anonymous | reply 22 | September 14, 2023 11:10 PM |
[quote] It’s theres to do whatever with.
Oh, dear
by Anonymous | reply 23 | September 14, 2023 11:36 PM |
R8 lol clown.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | September 14, 2023 11:51 PM |
He wasn't openly gay while he was competing, so I don't think it cost him all that much in terms of endorsements.
by Anonymous | reply 25 | September 15, 2023 8:45 AM |
Companies never chose him for endorsements because despite his really good looks he came off a gay, even if he hadn't come out.
by Anonymous | reply 26 | September 15, 2023 2:07 PM |
Divers have never gotten endorsements post-Olympics. They're like male gymnasts, nobody cares. Olympic sports are the one place where female athletes tend to shine on the endorsement spectrum
by Anonymous | reply 27 | September 16, 2023 8:50 AM |
I met him at a book signing 20 years ago, nice guy. It’s likely an effort to shore up his retirement or pay down debt. I’d rather have my home paid off than medals sitting on a shelf.
by Anonymous | reply 28 | September 16, 2023 9:09 AM |
[quote]spitting on Michelle Kwan
Pics please.
by Anonymous | reply 29 | September 16, 2023 9:15 AM |
He himself said doesn't attribute not getting endorsements to him being gay but because the country was obsessed with Mary Lou retton. I suppose it could be a mix of the two.
by Anonymous | reply 30 | September 16, 2023 12:23 PM |
[quote] Divers have never gotten endorsements post-Olympics.
Did he even get the cover of a Wheaties box?
by Anonymous | reply 31 | September 16, 2023 3:12 PM |
R31 I googled that because I was curious
by Anonymous | reply 32 | September 16, 2023 3:22 PM |
[quote] I googled that because I was curious
Well what was the answer?
by Anonymous | reply 33 | September 16, 2023 3:31 PM |
[quote] Divers have never gotten endorsements post-Olympics.
Does that include crocheting wunderkind Tom Daley, or was his only endorsement from horse DLB?
by Anonymous | reply 34 | September 16, 2023 3:33 PM |
r33 Probably best for you to check for yourself - many reasons behind my decision
by Anonymous | reply 35 | September 16, 2023 3:34 PM |
Louganis did not get a Wheaties box, Mary Lou Retton did, however.
by Anonymous | reply 36 | September 16, 2023 7:50 PM |
That's not entirely true, R27. Of course, despite my name, unlike Greg, I'm not actually one.
by Anonymous | reply 37 | September 16, 2023 8:07 PM |
Male figure skaters don’t get endorsements either.
by Anonymous | reply 38 | September 16, 2023 8:18 PM |
I was going to post about this,OP,but I didn't want it DL to rip Greg to shreds wondering what the motive was behind selling his Olympic medals. Auction aside ,I'm from Greg's generation, and I always got the impression that he wanted to be 'saved' by a partner. He was adopted by a white family,is mixed with Samoan ancestry,said he was called the n-word growing and is a female leaning gay. That had to be a lot to deal with ,so he turned to sports/swimming 🥽 which we know he excelled at. But he was in a closeted relationship with a man that belittled and sexually assaulted him-in addition to leaving him financially strapped and most likely caught HIV from him, according to Greg. That man has since died ,but Greg is still here.
For whatever reasons, Greg never got the lucrative endorsements that come form being an Olympic gold medalist when he was in his prime . I wish he would have parlayed his notoriety into a line of men's swimwear/underwear 🩳🩲 or something along those lines . If he had better management,that would have been the natural path to follow for a celebrated Olympic champion like Greg Louganis. It's still not too late for that-he doesn't have to do the day to day work for a man in his 60's -just license his name.
I wish Greg all the best -he deserves to have some stability in his later years and if selling his medals can do that 😉,more power to him. The medals are just a physical representation of all that he has accomplished. He will always have the memories of what he achieved and that's all that matters.
by Anonymous | reply 39 | September 16, 2023 8:24 PM |
Fem leaning gay I meant !
by Anonymous | reply 40 | September 16, 2023 8:25 PM |
[quote] I wish he would have parlayed his notoriety into a line of men's swimwear/underwear 🩳🩲
Is he into fisting?
by Anonymous | reply 41 | September 16, 2023 8:27 PM |
He seems like a really great person
by Anonymous | reply 42 | September 17, 2023 3:14 PM |
A woman I worked with kept her bronze medal on her office desk. A co-worker asked her why and she said "Well you already know I'm mean, I just want to remind you I'm faster than you". She was a sweetheart, the only Olympic medalist I ever met.
by Anonymous | reply 43 | September 17, 2023 3:35 PM |
R43...A bit of Olympic trivia for fans of the TV show 'Strangers with Candy'. The actress Delores (Dwyer) Duffy who was the school secretary, Iris Puffybush actually completed in the 1952 Helsinki Olympics and won the *Bronze* medal.
by Anonymous | reply 44 | September 17, 2023 5:11 PM |
He's auctioning them off to raise money for The Damien Center, an HIV/AIDS foundation. They're raising money for a new building. It's on his website.
by Anonymous | reply 46 | September 18, 2023 1:45 AM |
[quote]He's auctioning them off to raise money for The Damien Center.
Why, thank you! Saving a nice place for you in hell, Greg!
by Anonymous | reply 48 | September 18, 2023 1:51 PM |