Out Olympic speed skater covered (and quite well, we might add) the June issue of England's Gay Times Magazine. But now with advocates calling for a boycott of the Winter Games in Sochi—a move Skjellerup opposes—we thought it fitting we take another look at his fine visage.

Oh, and his opinions too.

“I don’t want to think [a story] on the Internet about me being gay is going to put me under any jeopardy," the New Zealander tells GT. "I hope I can bring some positive change in Russia to overcome their LGBT discrimination.”

No matter what happens in Sochi, it sounds like Skejjerup will be hanging up his skates after the Games: “I’m a lone athlete so I have to do everything myself," Skejjerup says of the financial toll competing has taken. I wouldn’t say I’ve lost my life to the sport, but I can’t see myself doing it for another four years.”

Source: James Demitri/GT Magazine