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May 6, 2010
Cheung Australian Olympic gold medalist diver Matthew Mitcham will travel to Germany for the Gay Games this summer. – Photo: William
An estimated 6,500 athletes from 70 countries will participate in the Gay Games VIII in Cologne, Germany, this summer from July 31 to Aug.7.
German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle will open the games July 31.
The Games is one of the largest sporting and cultural events in the world. Organizers compared the 6,500 LGBT people registered for the Cologne competition with the 2,500 athletes who competed in the winter Olympic Games in Vancouver.
The Games are not limited to sporting events — more than 2,000 people are expected to participate in the band festival, choral festival and cheerleading events, and others are registered for an arts exhibition.
Organizers are expecting the registration number to climb before the deadline arrives May 31.
A majority of the registrants are from the United States and Germany, while there are no registrants from large swaths of the Southwest Asia and Africa.
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