Talk:Greg Louganis

message: 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)
replies: text: No, that really was a concern at the time. Therefore, it should remain (and it has been replaced). Kurt Weber 04:56, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: There was no real reason to delete the bit about the head injury.... Nar Matteru (talk) 02:01, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

text: I agree, why try to rewrite history? At the time, this was a concern whether. Whether or not the concern was valid is something in hindsight. Angry bee (talk) 19:23, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Previous discussions without headers

message: 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)
replies: text: By all appearances (see the pix on his website). Louganis was and is merely HIV-positive to this day, although he claimed in 1995 to meet the CDC's clinical definition of AIDS  [[http://www.aegis.com/news/Lt/1995/LT950206.html. He probably did, for what it's worth. It's a curious case, like that of Magic Johnson. Both men have had HIV for twenty-odd years, yet seem to show no sign of AIDs. I've commented on this in Johnson's Talk section, where I point out the difference between him and those who are known to have taken antiretrovirals for years: the latter group are dying of accelerated old age. I suspect that neither Louganis nor Johnson are taking antiretrovirals but the matter probably doesn't belong in their articles. Eye.earth (talk) 00:31, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: FWIW many folks exhibit no outward appearances of AIDS, which is actually a medical definition of a condition rather than one disease. Everyone is different and until someone tells you what meds they are or aren't taking, it's not worth guessing. Especially with AIDS as many alter their treatments as needed. Some of the earliest cases from the 1980s remain asymptomatic.  -- Banjeboi 13:11, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Technically speaking 

message: 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)
thread_title:  Introduction 

message: 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)
replies: text: Considering that "having HIV and hitting your head on diving board" is not currently an Olympic event, it seems to me 4-times Olympic diving gold medalist would be the most well-known worldwide association of Louganis. Angry bee (talk) 19:30, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Change to the lede? 

message: 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)
thread_title:  Scouting tie[[Special:Contributions/216.160.142.78|216.160.142.78]] ([[User talk:216.160.142.78|talk]]) 22:02, 6 October 2013 (UTC) 

message: 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)
thread_title:  The formatting is all kinds of messed up