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Episode 20 · Feb 11, 2026 · 47 min

Gus Kenworthy

Coming Out of Retirement, Identity After the Olympics, and Being Okay in Your Skin

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Office of / Department of conversationFile no. 020
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The gist

Gus Kenworthy has lived multiple lives in one — Olympic freestyle skier, cultural lightning rod, mental health advocate, actor, and now, a New Yorker in Williamsburg getting ready to do the thing he once swore he was done with: compete again.

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