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I am removing the bit about his head injury and AID's, since it seems dubious at best that researchers did not know aids could not be transmitted through chlorinated water. One, chlorinated water kills just about everything (hence the point of it BEING chlorinated), and two, the whole paragraph sounds like a hark back to the 80's when drinking from the same cup from a person with AID's meant you could get the disease. Considering the constant filtering and change of water in a swimming pool (particuarly a large scale, professional olympic pool), the fact that they cleaned off the diving board of his blood, and the fact that it was chlorinated, the paragraph about his being HIV positive and hitting his head seems a stab at him. SiberioS 03:57, 9 August 2005 (UTC)
Did he really win 2 world championships in 1982, I thought 1 per year. Go Bruce!!
In 1994, Louganis publicly announced he was gay and took part in the Gay Games. The following year, in 1995, Louganis also announced he had AIDS, something he had actually known since early 1988. He was dropped by all of his corporate sponsors except Speedo, which has stayed with him to this day. Did he have AIDS in 1995 or was he just HIV positive? -- Eddylyons 20:19, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
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I have changed the introduction of this article back from reading "is a gay American diver" to "is an American diver". The change had been made recently by an anonymous contributor and did not accord with current Wikipedia editorial practice. - Mark 09:52, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
At the bottom of the info box located at the top right corner of the article it says "Retired: Yes". Wouldn't it be more natural to type "Active: No"? Since it says he's an athlete the default state should be "active" imho.
This article should say more about the accident. 70.92.103.13 06:57, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
Whether you think HIV causes AIDS or not (and I don’t think it does), it was surely unethical for Louganis to compete, because he knew he was HIV-positive months before the 1988 accident. The issue is the perception of danger, not necessarily any actual danger. (The doctor who stitched up Louganis' bloody head without wearing protective gloves probably got a good jolt upon learning in 1995 about a possible exposure seven years earlier. [1] ) I think that’s the source of the controversy, and hence the argument as to whether the accident deserves greater mention in the article. But I'm curious about those who think that the news media's emphasis on the perceived danger posed to others by Louganis' blood was unjustified. Presumably they also don't believe that HIV causes AIDS and thus object to any undue emphasis on what turned out to be a non-existent danger. Eye.earth ( talk) 03:36, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
Inappropriate comment removed. Ron ( talk) 21:53, 11 June 2009 (UTC) If HIV doesn't cause AIDs, then what, in Louganis's case did: "Poppers" use? As an athlete, he may not have gone anywhere near them. It's unlikely that he was a mainliner, and he didn't suffer from malnutrition. He did, though, as a gay person, as likely as not, have unprotected sex with another male, perhaps at a time (before the early 80s)when people didn't know HIV existed.~~ —Preceding unsigned comment added by Opusv5 ( talk • contribs) 19:25, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
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In any event, the paragraph should say something about the accident. As it stands now, it doesn't, and it needs to be inferred.
Drsruli ( talk) 02:15, 3 January 2022 (UTC)
Currently, it reads "He is best known for winning back-to-back Olympic titles in both the 3m and 10m diving events.'
Is this really accurate to be honest? If we were to have a poll of 1000 people and they were asked "What is Greg Louganis best known for?", do you really think they'd say "Oh he was the guy who won back to back olympic titles in both the 3m and 10m diving events" or would they say "He's the guy who hit his head on the diving board, and has HIV"? I think they'd say the latter. I'm not saying we need to say "Best known for hitting his head during a dive", but I think the lede as it's currently written is misleading, so I'm changing it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by SuperAtheist ( talk • contribs) 00:05, 19 December 2010 (UTC)
I don't know if it's germaine, but I've enjoyed the irony for Years: In the 80s, Boys'Life Magazine, the mouthpiece of the Boy Scouts of America, published two (2) articles about Greg. Of course, they both extolled his fight against predjudice and his overcoming a difficult childhood home situation. Naturally, he was held up as an example for boys of Scouting age; "you, too, can be like him." I haven't been in Scouting since 1995, but I do wonder, sometimes...did the BSA print a retraction or the likedistancing themelves from a former icon, or did they ignore the whole business and hope no one remembers? 216.160.142.78 ( talk) 22:02, 6 October 2013 (UTC)
Other than saying that he got married in 2013, there is no clue as to what he is up to these days.
I don't know wiki markup, but the end of this article is a mess. Can someone that's better at that than me do something about it? There are a bunch of broken tags. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.199.45.160 ( talk) 17:13, 19 September 2023 (UTC)
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I am removing the bit about his head injury and AID's, since it seems dubious at best that researchers did not know aids could not be transmitted through chlorinated water. One, chlorinated water kills just about everything (hence the point of it BEING chlorinated), and two, the whole paragraph sounds like a hark back to the 80's when drinking from the same cup from a person with AID's meant you could get the disease. Considering the constant filtering and change of water in a swimming pool (particuarly a large scale, professional olympic pool), the fact that they cleaned off the diving board of his blood, and the fact that it was chlorinated, the paragraph about his being HIV positive and hitting his head seems a stab at him. SiberioS 03:57, 9 August 2005 (UTC)
Did he really win 2 world championships in 1982, I thought 1 per year. Go Bruce!!
In 1994, Louganis publicly announced he was gay and took part in the Gay Games. The following year, in 1995, Louganis also announced he had AIDS, something he had actually known since early 1988. He was dropped by all of his corporate sponsors except Speedo, which has stayed with him to this day. Did he have AIDS in 1995 or was he just HIV positive? -- Eddylyons 20:19, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
References
I have changed the introduction of this article back from reading "is a gay American diver" to "is an American diver". The change had been made recently by an anonymous contributor and did not accord with current Wikipedia editorial practice. - Mark 09:52, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
At the bottom of the info box located at the top right corner of the article it says "Retired: Yes". Wouldn't it be more natural to type "Active: No"? Since it says he's an athlete the default state should be "active" imho.
This article should say more about the accident. 70.92.103.13 06:57, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
Whether you think HIV causes AIDS or not (and I don’t think it does), it was surely unethical for Louganis to compete, because he knew he was HIV-positive months before the 1988 accident. The issue is the perception of danger, not necessarily any actual danger. (The doctor who stitched up Louganis' bloody head without wearing protective gloves probably got a good jolt upon learning in 1995 about a possible exposure seven years earlier. [1] ) I think that’s the source of the controversy, and hence the argument as to whether the accident deserves greater mention in the article. But I'm curious about those who think that the news media's emphasis on the perceived danger posed to others by Louganis' blood was unjustified. Presumably they also don't believe that HIV causes AIDS and thus object to any undue emphasis on what turned out to be a non-existent danger. Eye.earth ( talk) 03:36, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
Inappropriate comment removed. Ron ( talk) 21:53, 11 June 2009 (UTC) If HIV doesn't cause AIDs, then what, in Louganis's case did: "Poppers" use? As an athlete, he may not have gone anywhere near them. It's unlikely that he was a mainliner, and he didn't suffer from malnutrition. He did, though, as a gay person, as likely as not, have unprotected sex with another male, perhaps at a time (before the early 80s)when people didn't know HIV existed.~~ —Preceding unsigned comment added by Opusv5 ( talk • contribs) 19:25, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
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In any event, the paragraph should say something about the accident. As it stands now, it doesn't, and it needs to be inferred.
Drsruli ( talk) 02:15, 3 January 2022 (UTC)
Currently, it reads "He is best known for winning back-to-back Olympic titles in both the 3m and 10m diving events.'
Is this really accurate to be honest? If we were to have a poll of 1000 people and they were asked "What is Greg Louganis best known for?", do you really think they'd say "Oh he was the guy who won back to back olympic titles in both the 3m and 10m diving events" or would they say "He's the guy who hit his head on the diving board, and has HIV"? I think they'd say the latter. I'm not saying we need to say "Best known for hitting his head during a dive", but I think the lede as it's currently written is misleading, so I'm changing it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by SuperAtheist ( talk • contribs) 00:05, 19 December 2010 (UTC)
I don't know if it's germaine, but I've enjoyed the irony for Years: In the 80s, Boys'Life Magazine, the mouthpiece of the Boy Scouts of America, published two (2) articles about Greg. Of course, they both extolled his fight against predjudice and his overcoming a difficult childhood home situation. Naturally, he was held up as an example for boys of Scouting age; "you, too, can be like him." I haven't been in Scouting since 1995, but I do wonder, sometimes...did the BSA print a retraction or the likedistancing themelves from a former icon, or did they ignore the whole business and hope no one remembers? 216.160.142.78 ( talk) 22:02, 6 October 2013 (UTC)
Other than saying that he got married in 2013, there is no clue as to what he is up to these days.
I don't know wiki markup, but the end of this article is a mess. Can someone that's better at that than me do something about it? There are a bunch of broken tags. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.199.45.160 ( talk) 17:13, 19 September 2023 (UTC)