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Thorpe not a happy chappy over gay rumoursBy Paul KentJanuary 30, 2009 12:00amTHE speculation and innuendo was too often for Ian Thorpe yesterday. Clearly, there comes a point. Shortly after lunch, Thorpe’s management company received a telephone call about the latest gay rumours.”I don’t think, at this point, there’s any ground for Ian to dignify what has been said,” said David Lyall, Grand Slam International’s communications director.”It’s a subject of some photos being taken and some implications being made on the internet.”It was more than they realised, though.No I am NOT gay, Thorpe insistsHollywood gossip Perez Hilton, himself gay, had outed Thorpe overnight, based on the photos of Thorpe holidaying with current flatmate and early training partner, Brazilian Daniel Mendes.”In Australia, the media has done everything but out swimmer Ian Thorpe,” Hilton wrote, following it with several deliberately mischievous paragraphs before he rolled a grenade into the room.”Thorpe’s manager, however, says they’re ‘just mates’ – which is Australian for ‘f . . . . . . ‘.”British tabloids had likewise made fun of the photos, although they focused largely on Thorpe’s weight gain.Lyall thought it all ridiculous.He saw no motive for Thorpe to remark on the innuendo. “At this point we don’t see the need,” he said. “Ian has made his side in life clear.”Which, of course, fanned the flames.Part of the allurement of Thorpe is he does not fit neatly into a box.Trying to arrest him down is like trying to nail jelly to the wall.Even when he was swimming, he managed to be piece of the Australian team, yet remote from it.Other swimmers put it downward to his overwhelming fame, which put him in a different world. It was that, and yet it was more than that. Now it emerges that he has recently holidayed with Mendes’ family in Brazil, and vice versa.Mendes, it is claimed, was introduced to Thorpe by former coach Tracey Menzies. “I introduced Daniel to the whole training squad, not specifically Ian,” she said yesterday.By then Mendes had already lived in Australia and trained under Thorpe’s former coach Doug Frost, finishing second in the under-16s 200m freestyle at the 2003 Australian Age Championships while taking the 100m.”He came back in 2006 or 2007, I can’t recall which, to do university and swim, predominantly training for the worlds,” Menzies said.”There’s no relationship to my knowledge, they’re just good mates.”Yet it hardly dispels the rumours.For years Thorpe’s manager Dave Flaskas, GSI’s managing director, has received correspondence from Sydney’s gay community. It was invariably the same.When he was quick to follow out, it went, they were quick to keep him.In a foreign way, though, in a devious way, it helped reinforce whispers Thorpe was refusing to get out.At his height, it went, Thorpe was celebrated around the world, most notably in Japan.Japanese biographies, Japanese companies, he even sign a bargain with TV Asahi, who put him alongside David Beckham and Tiger Woods as its marquee signings.His earning potential in Japan far outstripped Australia – where there is really little market for the pink yen.A coming out would be career suicide.Lyall said yesterday that Thorpe still has business interests in Japan, which seem to get stirred from sponsorships into more investment-type opportunities.Again, it shows the development of Thorpe. He is never in the same place long enough to properly examine.Foxtel, in Australia, still stands fiercely behind him, with one Australian marketing expert saying a gay Ian Thorpe would receive no less earning potential than a straight Ian Thorpe.Thorpe is still sponsored by Audi in Australia and globally by adidas and Omega. Yesterday he was in Melbourne, working his last few years before beginning the last two days of his university degree next week.Flaskas met all day with international clients as photographers camped outside his office. Flaskas would not be out of his meeting before 6pm.Websites – from queerty.com in New York, to samesame.com.au here in Australia, debated the innuendo well through the day. What Thorpe knew of the fence is unknown.Until bang on 6pm, when a command was released, from Thorpe, through GSI.”I feel this sort of inaccurate speculation tiresome and I am vexed by the injury it has caused those nearest to me,” it said in part.And all it does is add to the secret of Thorpe. As hard as it was, it leave not end the speculation one bit.Source: The Daily Telegraph Maybe he should be more interested about those love handles and man boobs!