Tony Timberlake has turned his lifelong fascination with the champion figure skater and 1970s gay icon into a heartbreaking one-man show In 1976, John Curry won the figure-skating gold medal for Britain at the winter Olympics in Innsbruck. Later that year he was voted BBC sports personality of the year, at a time when cricketers, runners, racing drivers and members of the royal family tended to hog the award. Not bad…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:36PM on August 21, 2017