Five Rings To Rule Them All is also available on Google Podcasts, Apple podcasts and many more platforms. You can listen to the conversation with Jordan Windle and his dad, Jerry, on the Megaphone player, or by visiting Spotify for an easy browser player. Now back on campus in Austin, he talks about the disappointment of the delay of his Olympic dreams and how he’s been prepping to compete at the Summer Olympics in Tokyo. of Texas, where he has won multiple NCAA championships and set an NCAA scoring record.

Plus they talk about the added complications of being of different races, especially when Jordan was a boy and didn’t fully understand what that was. The similarities between the two - both adopted, both young diving proteges - have led some to call Jordan “Little Louganis.”Īlso, Jerry gives us insight into the life of the parent of an elite athlete and how Jordan was “discovered” by a diving coach when he was just a kid.

On the latest episode of the Five Rings To Rule Them All podcast, I talk with Jordan and Jerry about the young star’s rise, as well as his personal and professional friendship with Olympic champion Greg Louganis. In Tokyo he’ll represent Team USA in men’s 10m platform diving.

Having been adopted from Cambodia at 18 months by Jerry Windle, the Olympic diver has, as a straight athlete at the top of his sport, become a defender and champion of the LGBTQ community. Jordan Windle has been around gay people almost all of his life.