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Culture War                         News From the Front Openly gay athletes still scarce at Olympic Games “ Why Was This Story Written? Why did AP writer Jill Lawless write this article?  Is it that she's a lazy slug, looking for an easy story? Is she herself gay,  and trying to curry favor with a lesbian  Bulgarian weightlifter?   Does AP have a cultural victim story quota ?  There are more than 10,000 athletes competing at the London games, but when the gay website OutSports.com set out to count how many were openly gay, it came up with 23. "It's an absurdly low number," said site co-founder Jim Buzinski. He said that compared to the arts, politics or business worlds, "sports is still the final closet in society." Estimates of the percentage of gay people in any given population vary widely. In a 2010 survey by Britain's Office for National Statistics, 1.5 percent of respondents identified themselves as gay or bisexual, although many consider that an underestimate. This is where the story of Conrad Mickelbauer, the gay sprinter who clocked a 9:57 in the 100m, but denied a spot on the U.S. Olympic team because he was gay will be told. . *tap tap tap*  I'm  waiting. That's because there is no Conrad Mickelbauer excluded for gayness story.  "I am an archer, middle-aged and a lesbian," the 46-year-old South African archer Karen Hultzer told me— but said she looked forward to the day when her sexuality was not an issues. HELL-OH?   Maybe it's an issue only because gay website OutSports.com set out to count how many were openly gay?  So STFU.  ”