Olympian Gus Kenworthy came out as gay in 2015, and to his surprise he became more popular

The big surprise came moments after his final jump, after Gus Kenworthy nailed a difficult maneuver to grab the lead at a slopestyle competition in the Colorado mountains.

Skiing to the bottom of the course, he noticed flashes of purple, blue and orange in the crowd.

“Amazing,” he says.

It was...