Olympic diver “wouldn’t be here” if not for his gay dad

Olympic diver Jordan Windle (left) has always attributed his success to the love of his dad, Jerry, who adopted him from a Cambodian orphanage as a toddler.
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Jordan Windle’s a seven-time U.S. senior national’s champion, six-time U.S. junior national’s champion, two-time Junior Pan American Championships medalist, a diving World Cup competitor, and this week, he will become an Olympic diver — all at the age of 22.

Jordan’s also the adopted child of Jerry Windle, a single gay man who didn’t think he’d be able to become a parent over 20 years ago. Jordan believes, “I wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for him.”

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Jordan earned his trip to Tokyo just two months ago, after previously trying out for Olympic teams as far back as when Jordan was 13. With the help of out Olympic champion diver Greg Louganis, Jordan’s qualification was a dream almost 15 years in the making.

Long before that, Jordan was born in Cambodia where he ended up in an orphanage by the time he was 18-months-old, reportedly because his birth parents had passed away due to illness.

At that time, Jerry was a single gay man in Florida. He opened a magazine and read a story of a single man who had adopted a child from an orphanage in Cambodia — the same one that Jordan was in. So Jerry began making calls.

“The article listed (the number of an adoption service) and so I called the number and I said…

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