Meet Curdin Orlik, the “swing” wrestling champ who just became Switzerland’s first openly gay athlete. OutSports reports that Orlik, 27, revealed to the Swiss publication The Magazine that Orlik told reporters “I’d rather be free than fearful.” He elaborated: “I am like that.
I can’t help it. That’s how I was born.” Swing wrestling, though very popular in Switzerland, remains virtually unknown in the rest of the world.