U.S. Olympian Lea Davison cycles past homophobia toward winning

By Matthew Lavietes

NEW YORK, July 23 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Two-time U.S. Olympic mountain biker Lea Davison should be pedaling towards her dream of winning a gold medal this week.

But since the coronavirus pandemic outbreak prompted Japan to postpone the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 to next year, even Olympians have slowed down.

“The silver lining is that I get to be with my wife,” said Davison, 37, who married Frazier Blair, a sporting goods company executive, in 2018 after a two-year relationship.

“In the first year we were married, we were only together six months out of the year so that’s been such a great thing,” she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.