2012 is fast becoming the year of sport.
While the relentless momentum generated by the summer Olympics in London this year is undeniable (less than 200 days to go!) there is a bit more to it than that.
There are now a number of openly gay sports people, still at the peak of their professional careers. Anton Hysen (football), Donal Cusack (hurling), Matthew Mitcham (diving) and Steve Davies (cricket) may only be a small band of pioneers, but the question of ‘should professional sports people come out?’ is beginning to feel a bit irrelevant.