BY DC CUEVA
Usually, I would be spending much of my free time working on posts related to the MTV beat for this very DCBLOG site, which is then posted on weekends like these after you catch up on the episodes. But this month, I've been leveling off on that to spend virtually most of this month doing something a lot of you love but I don't do much: binge-watching the Olympics and live tweeting the competition every night. This offers the setting to this latest In-Depth longform, which is usually branded as DC ExtraTime and for which it takes its inspiration from the "Up Close and Personal" storytelling synonymous with Olympic TV coverage. And this story combines these two passions for something that took place last year and for which the moment of truth takes place tonight for our subject.
Last year, The Challenge launched a spinoff series pitting Champs – or at best, the show's most well-known competitors – against a group of Joe's from the sports and entertainment worlds to determine who is strongest, all in the name of charity. We saw several NFL stars, a U.K. celeb competition veteran who set the stage for the British invasion to Vendettas currently airing this season, a Wild 'N Out girl who showed that there was more to her than just looks and rhymes, and fighters from the WWE and UFC.
Three weeks ago, the biggest event in American sports crowned the champion of this country's biggest sports league - Super Bowl LII in Minneapolis. And as soon as the Lombardi Trophy was given to the Eagles in a high-scoring affair over the Patriots, the sports world's attention, as well as that of the game's host network NBC, turned instantly across the Pacific Ocean to Pyeongchang, South Korea where four days later, the XXIII Olympic Winter Games begun competition a day before the Opening Ceremony.
Like any other good Challenger, Gus has always been a passionate competitor and having spent most of his life in Telluride, skiing has been in his blood – even spending hours after the lifts closed for the day to practice tricks at the nearby ski resort with his friends and with older brothers Nick and Hugh. When a close friend of his was killed in an untimely accident – a story which will be brought up when he appears on an E! show later this month, he kept on skiing as way to keep his memory alive, and worked just as hard to push the limits of his sport. So much so, that he scooped the rest of his fellow skiers by coming up with new jumps and tricks that no one had ever done before, where after a highlight reel of his skills made YouTube when he was 16 – exactly ten years ago, a pro career in freeskiing would follow, and sponsors like P&G, Visa, Samsung, United and Comcast jumped aboard.
In this time since he came out, he has no doubt received tremendous support from in and outside the sports world for proving that you can be out and proud and still be able to compete at the highest level, which brings us to last year on Champs vs. Pros: Gus was part of a Pros team of former and active athletes which not only included fellow Olympians Jacobellis, Jones and Vito, but also WWE & UFC fighter CM Punk, British heptathlete Louise Hazel, and former NFL and WNBA players. They faced the likes of Bananas, Wes, CT, Camila and Ashley M. for this first of a kind special Challenge.
After hearing his story from him who also teared up, Cara (who won CvP with her Fresh Meat II partner and four-time Challenge champ Darrell) told him, "I have honestly learned throughout the years that the people who say the meanest things, it's only reflective of their own hatred and insecurities. It's about themselves, it's not about you as a person."
His current boyfriend of now over two years, independent movie actor Matthew Wilkas, watched from the sideline as Gus took out Punk in the elimination, and the couple shared a moment upon his win. He would eventually make it to the last challenge before the final, but wasn't chosen to go for the title of champions of that season. But his charities, The Trevor Project – a non-profit focusing on suicide prevention efforts for LGBT youth, and Miley Cyrus' Happy Hippie Foundation which not only helps gay & lesbian kids but also youth homelessness, were the benefits of his efforts.
And of course, last week Gus made headlines along with the other most notable out & proud Team USA star, figure skater and standout performer Adam Rippon, in taking a picture together at the Opening Ceremony and them spending time with each other a good deal in Pyeongchang. Unlike other athletes and in joining Rippon, Kenworthy has taken a proactive role in speaking out against the President – a former reality TV star – on his administration turning their backs on the LGBT community, and he has made it clear that he won't accept an invitation to the White House for the traditional Team USA visit to Washington, D.C. once the Olympic afterglow fades away.
As one of the handful who follows the Olympic sports world both during the 17 days we're glued to watching these athletes every two years and the time in between that fortnight, the backstory of Gus Kenworthy was the one that was the most appealing of the Pros who competed on Champs vs Pros. Those who watched that first Challenge spinoff season last May & June were inspired by what he was able to do, bringing to the MTV audience his incredible story and almost making it to the final.
Now, those who watched Gus last summer will join with the larger Olympic audience of both avid sports fans and casual viewers in seeing if he can make the podium again – perhaps even win gold and doing so after having to endure some pain he's had in this past week. The possibility of him standing on the podium or perhaps on the top step of it accepting a gold medal and hearing the Star Spangled Banner while the American flag is being raised will have so much meaning to a lot of people and turn him into the next big star, all the while staying true to who he is while also being the top freeskier on earth. Best of luck to Gus as he goes for gold.
Tonight is the men's slopestyle as Gus, fellow Sochi medalist Nick Goepper and first-time Olympian McRae Williams go for medals in Korea, and my dedicated live Twitter account DCNOW will have that covered along with American Ted Ligety going for repeat men's giant slalom gold and more on @DC408DxNow, and you can join the conversation at #DCGames18. I've been doing nightly live commentary on DCNOW and if you love the Olympics, feel free to give it a follow for that, updates and more from Korea.
As for MTV matters, this week saw two big bombshells go down on The Challenge Vendettas and we'll have that covered here tomorrow, along with a look at the latest MTV power couple and news of a new baby. And if you enjoy posts such as these, bookmark this site for all things Trifecta and share these links with your fellow users on social media so they can sample the outstanding content this site offers each week.
Enjoy tonight's Olympic action, and join DCBLOG tomorrow as we go Inside the MTV Trifecta... see you soon.
- I AM DC
Three weeks ago, the biggest event in American sports crowned the champion of this country's biggest sports league - Super Bowl LII in Minneapolis. And as soon as the Lombardi Trophy was given to the Eagles in a high-scoring affair over the Patriots, the sports world's attention, as well as that of the game's host network NBC, turned instantly across the Pacific Ocean to Pyeongchang, South Korea where four days later, the XXIII Olympic Winter Games begun competition a day before the Opening Ceremony.
On Champs vs. Pros and on Champs vs. Stars, Team USA was well represented: snowboarders Lindsey Jacobellis and Louie Vito, hurdler turned bobsledder Lolo Jones, fellow 2008 Olympian and Des Moines native Shawn Johnson, Tokyo 2020 surfing hopeful Tia Blanco, and the man who had the most fascinating backstory of those who competed on either season. And as he goes for gold this coming weekend, we'd thought we like to bring you a post that was supposed to be posted during Champs vs. Pros but has been backtracked to this week as he competes in Korea.
This story was slated to be posted during Champs vs. Pros last summer, but was put on the back-burner because of season 30 of the regular show which debuted shortly after the finale. But given the timeliness of him competing tonight in the U.S. and this morning in Asia, as well as making plenty of headlines both on the snow and in the lead-up to these Games, we thought that this was the perfect time to share with you this back-tracked post. This is our Pro's Profile of Olympian, proud LGBT athlete and Champs vs. Pros competitor Gus Kenworthy.
A week ago, the world gathered in Korea for the first time for a major international event since the 2002 FIFA World Cup, the U.S. Men's National Team's quarterfinal run, and Brazil winning its fifth world championship in soccer. Thirty years ago, Korea hosted its first Olympics when Seoul hosted the Summer Games – known for the Ben Johnson doping scandal and held shortly after South Korea became a democracy. The American team that's arrived in Pyeongchang is the largest contingent ever for any Winter Games at 243 athletes - and so far has seen Shaun White, Mikaela Shiffrin, Chloe Kim and Red Gerard become superstars.
The last time the titans of winter sports gathered was in Sochi, Russia in February 2014, what seems to be long ago. The world entered its largest country amid turmoil and controversy – especially in Russia's treatment of those of LGBT origin, and over a year before gays & lesbians were granted marriage rights in America. There was also no idea of the news that later emerge of some of Russia's athletes taking part in a systematic doping program which would later cast a shadow over both the Rio and Pyeongchang Games when many prominent Russian athletes were barred from competing. But as it was in Brazil, the Sochi Games went off without a hitch as the athletes were front and center.
In Russia, Team USA leveled off a little from their enormously successful showing in Vancouver in claiming 28 medals, at first second behind the hosts who won 33 – but after the revelations of doping that saw several Russian athletes stripped of their medals and saw enormous ramifications for these 2018 Games, the U.S. ascended into the top of the medal count. In the absence of Lindsey Vonn who missed the Games due to injury, the retired Apolo Ohno and the seemingly invincible White faltering, fellow Americans were given the chance to take turns in being breakout stars on the world's greatest stage: skier Shiffrin, ice dancers Meryl Davis & Charlie White, and the Games' first gold medalist – snowboarder Sage Kotsenburg in slopestyle.
For Jacobellis, she entered her third Olympics looking to claim that elusive Olympic gold medal after falling short in Vancouver and of course the infamous showboating that cost her gold in Torino in 2006... but it was not to be for Lindsey in Russia as it would be just a few days ago in Korea. For Lolo, she entered Sochi amidst much fanfare when she was selected to be on the U.S. bobsled team over other sledders who felt that she was chosen because of her fame, and in the end Jones & partner Elana Meyers didn't factor into the medal picture in not cracking the Top 10.
And then, there was the bright side to the three Sochi Olympians on Champs vs. Pros: for only the third time in its history, the United States – a nation that had not become a winter sports powerhouse as they had during the summer games until Salt Lake 2002 – swept the medals in a winter event. It took place in freestyle skiing's men's slopestyle – an event that made its debut in Russia: the gold went to Park City resident Joss Christianson, the bronze went to Indiana native Nick Goepper, and the silver went to Gus Kenworthy.
For Gus, this American-born British native born to an American dad and British mom came home from Sochi to the southern Colorado ski resort town of Telluride to a hero's welcome. Practically most of its 2,300 residents showed up with a "Go Gus!" sign along main street and the town's mayor naming a portion of one of its streets in honor of the first resident from their neck of the woods to compete in the biggest event in sports. And as is typical for medal-winning Olympians, Gus, Christianson and Goepper they went on a media tour to Today and David Letterman, and adorned a Kellogg's cereal box after making rare Olympic history.
Most of the attention was focused on Gus, who not only won an Olympic medal but also went out of his way to save and adopt five stray dogs who had lived outside one of the press centers that housed the world's media in Sochi, and a picture of him with the puppies became viral and attracted the attention of Miley Cyrus –- who he named as his celebrity crush. It landed Gus in People and US Weekly magazines, became the answer to a question asked on Jeopardy, and found himself linked romantically to American skater Gracie Gold when she also competed on Team USA four years ago.
While he was smiling for the cameras in the town center, those who came to celebrate their hero had no idea that behind all that was someone who had not revealed a secret that would've spelled the end to a career and see everything all crash down. Before most people outside of his family circles and the action sports and Olympic worlds knew him for the first time, in 2013 Gus began to tell family and friends who were in the closet that he was homosexual. While athletes who take pride in who they truly are is commonplace in summer Olympic sports – diving legend Greg Louganis being the LGBT community's first notable Olympian, no winter athlete or action sports star had publicly come out of the closet until Gus did.
From as early as 5 years old, Kenworthy knew that he was gay, but even when competing in front of TV cameras he was scared of putting that out in the open. When he made his way down the hill in his specialty, the slopestyle event which debuted in Sochi, the plan was that he would publicly come out, with the world watching and in a country that had become the enemy to gays, lesbians, bisexual and transgendered people in what would've been a tremendous statement that would've transpired sports the same way two U.S. black athletes turn their Mexico City triumph into a powerful political statement fifty years ago. But given the ramifications of such a move and not wanting to take attention off of his fellow skiers, Gus was not ready just yet and instead did not come out.
This story was slated to be posted during Champs vs. Pros last summer, but was put on the back-burner because of season 30 of the regular show which debuted shortly after the finale. But given the timeliness of him competing tonight in the U.S. and this morning in Asia, as well as making plenty of headlines both on the snow and in the lead-up to these Games, we thought that this was the perfect time to share with you this back-tracked post. This is our Pro's Profile of Olympian, proud LGBT athlete and Champs vs. Pros competitor Gus Kenworthy.
A week ago, the world gathered in Korea for the first time for a major international event since the 2002 FIFA World Cup, the U.S. Men's National Team's quarterfinal run, and Brazil winning its fifth world championship in soccer. Thirty years ago, Korea hosted its first Olympics when Seoul hosted the Summer Games – known for the Ben Johnson doping scandal and held shortly after South Korea became a democracy. The American team that's arrived in Pyeongchang is the largest contingent ever for any Winter Games at 243 athletes - and so far has seen Shaun White, Mikaela Shiffrin, Chloe Kim and Red Gerard become superstars.
The last time the titans of winter sports gathered was in Sochi, Russia in February 2014, what seems to be long ago. The world entered its largest country amid turmoil and controversy – especially in Russia's treatment of those of LGBT origin, and over a year before gays & lesbians were granted marriage rights in America. There was also no idea of the news that later emerge of some of Russia's athletes taking part in a systematic doping program which would later cast a shadow over both the Rio and Pyeongchang Games when many prominent Russian athletes were barred from competing. But as it was in Brazil, the Sochi Games went off without a hitch as the athletes were front and center.
In Russia, Team USA leveled off a little from their enormously successful showing in Vancouver in claiming 28 medals, at first second behind the hosts who won 33 – but after the revelations of doping that saw several Russian athletes stripped of their medals and saw enormous ramifications for these 2018 Games, the U.S. ascended into the top of the medal count. In the absence of Lindsey Vonn who missed the Games due to injury, the retired Apolo Ohno and the seemingly invincible White faltering, fellow Americans were given the chance to take turns in being breakout stars on the world's greatest stage: skier Shiffrin, ice dancers Meryl Davis & Charlie White, and the Games' first gold medalist – snowboarder Sage Kotsenburg in slopestyle.
For Jacobellis, she entered her third Olympics looking to claim that elusive Olympic gold medal after falling short in Vancouver and of course the infamous showboating that cost her gold in Torino in 2006... but it was not to be for Lindsey in Russia as it would be just a few days ago in Korea. For Lolo, she entered Sochi amidst much fanfare when she was selected to be on the U.S. bobsled team over other sledders who felt that she was chosen because of her fame, and in the end Jones & partner Elana Meyers didn't factor into the medal picture in not cracking the Top 10.
For Gus, this American-born British native born to an American dad and British mom came home from Sochi to the southern Colorado ski resort town of Telluride to a hero's welcome. Practically most of its 2,300 residents showed up with a "Go Gus!" sign along main street and the town's mayor naming a portion of one of its streets in honor of the first resident from their neck of the woods to compete in the biggest event in sports. And as is typical for medal-winning Olympians, Gus, Christianson and Goepper they went on a media tour to Today and David Letterman, and adorned a Kellogg's cereal box after making rare Olympic history.
Most of the attention was focused on Gus, who not only won an Olympic medal but also went out of his way to save and adopt five stray dogs who had lived outside one of the press centers that housed the world's media in Sochi, and a picture of him with the puppies became viral and attracted the attention of Miley Cyrus –- who he named as his celebrity crush. It landed Gus in People and US Weekly magazines, became the answer to a question asked on Jeopardy, and found himself linked romantically to American skater Gracie Gold when she also competed on Team USA four years ago.
While he was smiling for the cameras in the town center, those who came to celebrate their hero had no idea that behind all that was someone who had not revealed a secret that would've spelled the end to a career and see everything all crash down. Before most people outside of his family circles and the action sports and Olympic worlds knew him for the first time, in 2013 Gus began to tell family and friends who were in the closet that he was homosexual. While athletes who take pride in who they truly are is commonplace in summer Olympic sports – diving legend Greg Louganis being the LGBT community's first notable Olympian, no winter athlete or action sports star had publicly come out of the closet until Gus did.
From as early as 5 years old, Kenworthy knew that he was gay, but even when competing in front of TV cameras he was scared of putting that out in the open. When he made his way down the hill in his specialty, the slopestyle event which debuted in Sochi, the plan was that he would publicly come out, with the world watching and in a country that had become the enemy to gays, lesbians, bisexual and transgendered people in what would've been a tremendous statement that would've transpired sports the same way two U.S. black athletes turn their Mexico City triumph into a powerful political statement fifty years ago. But given the ramifications of such a move and not wanting to take attention off of his fellow skiers, Gus was not ready just yet and instead did not come out.
In 2007 as a 15 year-old, Gus medaled in both the slopestyle and halfpipe at Nationals, and three years later he broke out onto the scene in winning both events in Aspen. But before both disciplines became part of the Olympic program, the biggest showcases for both events were the X-Games, and the next thing on Kenworthy's mind was of doing well at Winter X... an event he grew up watching and one day imagined he would compete in. After medaling at 2013 European X and his Sochi success, he came to Winter X 2015 with high expectations and his face all over Aspen and expected to medal in not just the pipe and slopestyle but also big air.
What happened there could have spelled the end to this promising career: he did not make the podium in any of the three events. Distraught from what happened there, he called his dad to tell him that he was quitting skiing altogether. This was during a time where Kenworthy's morale was at an all-time low: he and his former boyfriend, ski filmmaker, Robin Macdonald broke up before Winter X, while two of the dogs he saved in Sochi were euthanized and the other two who survived went along with his ex. His dad Peter Kenworthy – a former Philadelphia banker, community TV producer and local film festival director – and Gus' agent, encouraged him to rethink his plans and not give up while still striving to perform to his full potential. That was the wake-up call Gus needed, and he gave this hobby another try... and bounced back in a big way.
After the failure in Aspen, he garnered a halfpipe podium at Mammoth Mountain, then won the big air event at Shaun White's Rose Bowl event, And when he returned to the Rocky Mountains in nearby Park City, Utah, he had already clinched a win at a tour stop when instead of just doing a mere victory lap, Kenworthy decided to do what Shaun and Chloe have done en route to their Olympic golds: go big in his second run and unveil a new trick. He landed a left double cork safety grab 1260 and three additional double corks: the first time a skier had landed four of those tricks in competition, and it's seen as the best run ever in ski halfpipe... That added to him being the first to land a double flip on a hip jump and the first double flip off a rail, all solidifying his #1 standing in the Association of Freeskiing Professionals rankings.
Along with an injury he had at a World Cup event in France, it was after demonstrating the kind of adversity and resolve that makes any true champion that Gus chose the right moment to finally and officially come out. He first told a friend of his, former skier Justin Dorey, that he was gay just after that X Games meltdown in Aspen, and after gradually revealing the news to family and friends Kenworthy chose ESPN The Magazine to make it all public in a cover story published a year after his Olympic triumphs, and just after he ascended to the goal he had of becoming the world's best in freeskiing.
This revelation instantly made Gus an icon and ambassador to a LGBT community, and in a culture in his sport where homophobic taunts were a common occurrence he became a breath of fresh air. Everyone from close friends to even the last person Kenworthy has wanted to hear from – one who he admired and who ridiculed him for missing a practice and in fact called him a derogatory name – rung him up to apologize and did not mean to hurt him. That was when this skier began to understand that him becoming the first action sports athlete to come out started to ring true.
What happened there could have spelled the end to this promising career: he did not make the podium in any of the three events. Distraught from what happened there, he called his dad to tell him that he was quitting skiing altogether. This was during a time where Kenworthy's morale was at an all-time low: he and his former boyfriend, ski filmmaker, Robin Macdonald broke up before Winter X, while two of the dogs he saved in Sochi were euthanized and the other two who survived went along with his ex. His dad Peter Kenworthy – a former Philadelphia banker, community TV producer and local film festival director – and Gus' agent, encouraged him to rethink his plans and not give up while still striving to perform to his full potential. That was the wake-up call Gus needed, and he gave this hobby another try... and bounced back in a big way.
After the failure in Aspen, he garnered a halfpipe podium at Mammoth Mountain, then won the big air event at Shaun White's Rose Bowl event, And when he returned to the Rocky Mountains in nearby Park City, Utah, he had already clinched a win at a tour stop when instead of just doing a mere victory lap, Kenworthy decided to do what Shaun and Chloe have done en route to their Olympic golds: go big in his second run and unveil a new trick. He landed a left double cork safety grab 1260 and three additional double corks: the first time a skier had landed four of those tricks in competition, and it's seen as the best run ever in ski halfpipe... That added to him being the first to land a double flip on a hip jump and the first double flip off a rail, all solidifying his #1 standing in the Association of Freeskiing Professionals rankings.
This revelation instantly made Gus an icon and ambassador to a LGBT community, and in a culture in his sport where homophobic taunts were a common occurrence he became a breath of fresh air. Everyone from close friends to even the last person Kenworthy has wanted to hear from – one who he admired and who ridiculed him for missing a practice and in fact called him a derogatory name – rung him up to apologize and did not mean to hurt him. That was when this skier began to understand that him becoming the first action sports athlete to come out started to ring true.
And Gus' status as a well-known beyond just the world's top free skier and the only man competing in halfpipe, slopestyle and big air would only increase: meeting the aforementioned Miley backstage at a tour stop in Denver, hanging out with Anderson Cooper & Kathy Griffin on New Year's Eve in Times Square, spending a moment with Tyler Oakley and Jack@$$ star Steve-O, and just recently talking to Ellen Degeneres before these Olympics. He also traveled to a camp in Uganda where a crew from the Olympic Channel documented him meeting refugees playing summer Olympic sports.
In Week 4 Gus was named the Pros' team captain for a challenge that saw them test their endurance as well as put together a puzzle. When the Pros lost, Gus was automatically put into elimination and ultimately would face CM Punk in that week's arena. But before he went into battle and while walking outside Universal Studios Hollywood, Gus had the chance to discuss the story of him coming out to the other eventual Champs vs. Pros winner, Bloodlines champ Cara Maria:
"I just always thought my life as a skier and my life as a gay man couldn’t co-exist. And after a while, I realized that the pain of holding onto this lie and the pain that I was having of being in the closet was actually greater than the fear just saying 'F___ it' and letting it go, and I was like, 'Screw it, I'm gonna come out.' When I actually did come out, it was like this amazing reception, like it aired on ESPN, they released the cover, and it just felt so good. And the following year was my best season ever competitively, I didn't miss a podium... sponsors were super supportive. I had people say some nasty s___. I just hope that my story can be a beacon of light for other people that are in the closet and just let people know that the best way you can live is authentically and genuinely and everyone deserves to be happy."
After hearing his story from him who also teared up, Cara (who won CvP with her Fresh Meat II partner and four-time Challenge champ Darrell) told him, "I have honestly learned throughout the years that the people who say the meanest things, it's only reflective of their own hatred and insecurities. It's about themselves, it's not about you as a person."
His current boyfriend of now over two years, independent movie actor Matthew Wilkas, watched from the sideline as Gus took out Punk in the elimination, and the couple shared a moment upon his win. He would eventually make it to the last challenge before the final, but wasn't chosen to go for the title of champions of that season. But his charities, The Trevor Project – a non-profit focusing on suicide prevention efforts for LGBT youth, and Miley Cyrus' Happy Hippie Foundation which not only helps gay & lesbian kids but also youth homelessness, were the benefits of his efforts.
But regardless of whether he wins a medal or not in a matter of hours, Gus is already a champion in many ways. He has been able to use this platform of being out and proud to help to empower those who were in the same spot that he was to just take pride in who they are and not let those who doubt you get in the way. He has gained a strong following, both after he made his orientation public and in the run-up to these Olympics, for which there has been a good deal of media coverage as the face of the Pyeongchang Games for a section of the American population who have a role model to look to as someone who competes openly and proudly as a gay athlete.
As one of the handful who follows the Olympic sports world both during the 17 days we're glued to watching these athletes every two years and the time in between that fortnight, the backstory of Gus Kenworthy was the one that was the most appealing of the Pros who competed on Champs vs Pros. Those who watched that first Challenge spinoff season last May & June were inspired by what he was able to do, bringing to the MTV audience his incredible story and almost making it to the final.
Now, those who watched Gus last summer will join with the larger Olympic audience of both avid sports fans and casual viewers in seeing if he can make the podium again – perhaps even win gold and doing so after having to endure some pain he's had in this past week. The possibility of him standing on the podium or perhaps on the top step of it accepting a gold medal and hearing the Star Spangled Banner while the American flag is being raised will have so much meaning to a lot of people and turn him into the next big star, all the while staying true to who he is while also being the top freeskier on earth. Best of luck to Gus as he goes for gold.
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Tonight is the men's slopestyle as Gus, fellow Sochi medalist Nick Goepper and first-time Olympian McRae Williams go for medals in Korea, and my dedicated live Twitter account DCNOW will have that covered along with American Ted Ligety going for repeat men's giant slalom gold and more on @DC408DxNow, and you can join the conversation at #DCGames18. I've been doing nightly live commentary on DCNOW and if you love the Olympics, feel free to give it a follow for that, updates and more from Korea.
As for MTV matters, this week saw two big bombshells go down on The Challenge Vendettas and we'll have that covered here tomorrow, along with a look at the latest MTV power couple and news of a new baby. And if you enjoy posts such as these, bookmark this site for all things Trifecta and share these links with your fellow users on social media so they can sample the outstanding content this site offers each week.
Enjoy tonight's Olympic action, and join DCBLOG tomorrow as we go Inside the MTV Trifecta... see you soon.
- I AM DC
BIBLIOGRAPHY: ESPN The Magazine, TIME Magazine, Rolling Stone, NBC Olympics
