2006 was a double-banner year for LGBT athletes. Two international sporting events were to take place that August; the seventh Gay Games in Chicago, and the upstart rival, the Montreal Outgames.Our June 22 Pride section featured eight sports articles (swimming, water polo, cycling, triathlon, softball, physique, wrestling, track and field) penned by myself, and four articles (tennis, badminton, volleyball) written by Rob Akers, including one feature on a triathlete gay couple who competed in both the Gay Games and Outgames.The years-long controversies over the Montreal group appropriating the concept after contracts and licensing negotiations failed are too expansive to detail here.