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U.S. Olympic diver Kristian Ipsen, and his penis, strike a pose. A rather gay one.

Google is about to be undulated with searches about USA diver Kristian Ipsen, and many of those are going to be asking if he is gay. Some people’s gaydar just isn’t all that good. That would be my dead grandmother’s. I’m not saying the boy plays for Team Pink, I’ll leave that assumption for the rest of the world to make. But Google needs at least one website to point toward rather than suffer the shame of returning 456,000 results, none of which address the subject – seriously G, when your predictive results wants to add ‘gay’ to Kristian’s name at the #1 spot for images, you need to have an appropriate pay out – so I’m just posting this to see to Google’s well-being.

The idea that an Olympic diver might be gay should not be earth shattering by now. Aussie Mathew Mitcham is openly gay and a gold medal winner to boot. Greg Louganis is probably one of the most famous gay Olympians as well as the most famous openly gay gold medal winners. Then there’s Australian diver Matthew Helm, and U.S. divers Patrick Jeffrey and David Pichler too. Throw in Tom Daley, Thomas Finchum, and Nick McCrory and you have to start wondering if being gay is a requirement for divers. One look at those incredibly hot bodies (perhaps except for McCrory’s, though those extremely hairy arm pits of his fascinate me) and you’ll start demanding that all Olympic divers be gay. Don’t worry, Kristian’s got your back. Though considering that boy’s booty those positions really should be switched.

I believe that’s the ‘do me’ position, which has a low degree of difficulty.

Kristian attends Stanford University, as does the recently out and proud gymnast Josh Dixon who unfortunately did not make the 2012 Olympic team. So there’s a local gay Olympic connection too. Just in case Ipsen is looking for pointers. And being equidistant from his school, his home in the affluent, tight-knitted suburban community of Clayton, Ca., and San Francisco, where rumor has it that there might just be a gay or two in residence, if Ipsen needs a naked shoulder to lean on there should be plenty to choose from.

The son of a pizza maker, the 19-year-old diving sensation may walk, talk, and gesture like a duck, but when he gets on the diving board his persona transforms into a masterful display of control and precision that hasn’t been seen in an American diver in decades. Kristian still has two to three Olympic Games in front of him, and will undoubtedly mature into one of the world’s best divers.

Um, just sayin’

An eight-time national champion at the senior level, Kristian is the youngest member of the U.S. Olympic diving team and is still considered a rookie on the international stage. Not that you’d ever know it from watching him dive. The control and confidence he exhibits is that of a much more marure diver. But then even for his young age, that should not come as a surprise. He has been diving competitively since the age of six, though that is not the sport he was initially drawn to.

“I did gymnastics for a little bit,” he says of his month long attempt on the mat, noting he stated with that sport because he enjoyed flipping and jumping on the trampoline. “I was super shy as a young kid and got moved up in age group with some kids I didn’t really feel comfortable with, so I stopped.”

Young, blonde, and in perfect form.

Ipsen switched over to swimming next, but says that spending practices swimming back and forth in the pool bored him. “So I kind of found a combination of the two,” he says. “Well, my parents did.” And the rest, as they say, is history.

By the age of eight, two years after he began competing, Kristian became the youngest diver to final on all three boards at the Junior National Championships and later became the youngest diver to win a junior national title. A member of the U.S. National Diving Team every year since 2006 – with the exception of 2007 – Ipsen has racked up a closet full of medals both on the national and international scene, and both as an individual and synchronized competitor.

Gold medal worthy booty.

By 2003 Kristian was winning gold medals at national events, taking the first place spot on both the 1m and 3m boards at the Speedo Junior Diving Championships in that year as well as in 2004 and 2005. At the 2003 Canada-U.S.A. Junior Challenge, his first international meet, he won gold on both of those as well as the 10m board. He is a sixteen-time junior national champion, an eight-time senior national champion, a three-time junior world champion, and was the 2009 World Championships silver medalist in the synchronized 3-meter event and the 2010 World Cup silver medalist in the same event. His qualification into the Olympics seemed to be a foregone conclusion, and his entry as a synchronized diver is part of his and his coach’s plan for Ipsen’s Olympic career.

From the look of his frequently displayed bulge, shrinkage does not seem to be one of Kristian’s concerns.

Kristian’s coach says he has groomed the 5’ 7” blonde bombshell for his appearance at the London 2012 Olympic Games, but their sight is beyond that. “Our goal with him is to put him on the team this year and hopefully he can medal in the synchronized event,” he said. “But in 2016, I’m going for a medal in the individual. He’s definitely the most accomplished diver I’ve ever coached.”

Ipsen is taking things one day and one dive at a time. And winning medals daily while he is at it. Kristian began his love affair with gold in the synchronized events diving with partner Drew Livingston. Together the two won gold at the 2007 Junior Pan American Championships on the 3m board. By 2009 he’d switched partners, teaming up with Troy Dumais with whom he will be diving in London. Dumais was previously partnered with Ipsen’s fellow diver with a questionable sexuality, Thomas Finchum. Ipsen went with Dumais, and Finchum with Kristian’s old partner, Livingston. All four competed against each other as one big family at the recent Trials, where Dumais and Ipsen came out on top. So to speak.

Ipsen and diving partner Dumais seem to get along fabulously.

Troy and Kristian have proved to be a good couple, winning gold at both the 2009 and 2010 AT&T USA Diving Grand Prix. They have come in first place at every national meet since 2009; on the international stage it’s been more of a struggle with the two consistently winning either silver or bronze at the World Cups and FINA World Championships, but unable to pull off the gold.

Tons of championships and medals aside, one of Kristian’s most memorable diving moments came at the age of ten when he met Olympic gold medalist Greg Louganis while at a diving camp in Indianapolis. “I was going for my second practice and lot of the older kids skipped it to go to an Indiana Hoosiers football game,” Ipsen recalls. “Greg was at the camp and it was just him and me for about two hours. He actually got up on the 3-meter platform and was coaching and talking to me through each of my dives. It was a really cool moment.”

Ipsen and out, gold medal winning diver Greg Lougains are frequently compared with each other.
Huh.

Comparing the two divers seems natural. Among other reasons, both display an uncanny ability to perform unheard of feats on the diving board. Ipsen says he is flattered by the comparison. “It’s an honor,” he says. “A lot of people kind of put us together because of the way we dive and our lines in the air. But if I even accomplish one-quarter of what he did in his career, I would be thrilled.”

His start, at least Olympic-wise, comes today when he and Dumais take to the 3m springboards. Kristian, as do most divers, listens to his own soundtrack between dives. He says he came up with a new playlist just for the Olympics. “I can’t listen to super intense music or anything like that because I don’t want to get more nervous or more anxious than I already am,” he says. “There’s certain dance music that I like, but it changes every time that I go to a meet.”

Kristian has his dives down to perfection, his cum face: not so much.

He lists his favorites as several gay European DJs, as well as the song Little Talk by Of Monsters and Men, a tune he says he loves. He says he is also a big fan of Northern Nights, not yet out diver Thomas Finchum’s four-man country cross-over band. Go figure.

Kristian and Daddy Dumais at play.

[‘The XXX Games’ are a series of posts about hot Olympians, gay competitors – both present and past – and general articles about the 2012 London Olympics of interest to gay men. So, yeah, lots of hot male eye candy. Click the XXX Games graphic above for additional news, stories, and pictures.]

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