As someone with zero interest in sports, the Olympics have always struck me as an overhyped institution. The Winter Games are particularly boring, but let's see past that for the jocks. The hot ones from the men's side of the U.S. Olympic team.

Forget the Stoli dumping, the Coke scandal and Russia's anti-gay laws. To paraphrase Georgia's own plump purveyor of Pride, Honey Boo Boo, the Winter Olympics has always been a little gay.

Blogger Matt Hennie is the founder and managing editor of Project Q Atlanta. He’s a longtime Atlanta resident who’s worked in journalism since his days as a Purple Paladin at Furman University in the early ‘90s. Never one to pass by a Matthew Mitcham story without stopping, I caught a new interview the Olympic swimming stud has with a gay media outlet in which he talks about coming out, a lack of endorsements and — this is fresh material — his role as Ambassador for Men’s Health in Australia. More after the jump.