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    Cloudy future became rainbow for US skier

    by David Wharton, Los Angeles Times Jan 28, 2018 4 minutes

    LOS ANGELES - The big surprise came moments after his final jump, after Gus Kenworthy nailed a difficult maneuver to grab the lead at a slopestyle competition in the Colorado mountains.

    Skiing to the bottom of the course, he noticed flashes of purple, blue and orange in the crowd.

    "Amazing," he says.

    It was the winter of 2015 and Kenworthy had just come out as a gay man. He wasn't the first pro athlete to make this sort of announcement, following the lead of NBA center Jason Collins, soccer standout Robbie Rogers and college football player Michael Sam.

    Still, it was a

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