We should just go ahead and rename this Matthew Mitcham Week here at AfterElton.com, seeing as how we just can't get enough of the history-making, record-breaking, heart-stealing Australian gold medal diver.

Just when we thought we'd covered all the Matthew we could, gay-friendly Australian swimsuit company Aussiebum had to go and produce an adorkable tribute video to Matthew that is just the sweetest thing since Splenda.

You can jot over here to check out the video and some cute pics of Matthew and his partner Lachlan eating ice cream and horsing around. And then be sure to come back here to OMGHESTHECUTESTLOLZZZZZ in the comments! We know we will.

Gary Zenkel

Yesterday AfterElton.com received a statement from Gary Zenkel, President, NBC Olympics concerning his network's coverage of Matthew Mitcham's gold medal upset during the diving competition at the Beijing Olympics. Said Zenkel:

"We regret that we missed the opportunity to tell Matthew Mitcham's story. We apologize for this unintentional omission."

If nothing else, we at least know the highest reaches of NBC Sports are aware of the issue. Hopefully, something like this won't happen again. We've given this issue a lot of coverage; too much according to some folks responding in the comments. What do you think? And what do you think of NBC's statement? 

Thanks to a mole at NBC Sports, AfterElton.com was able to obtain this exclusive transcript of an IM conversation between an NBC reporter trying to convince his boss that Matthew Mitcham's upset gold medal victory in the Men's 10 meter platform was worth coverage by the network.

NBCLACKEY: Hey, Boss! Got a great story for tonight’s Oly coverage!
NBCHONCHO: Is it something else about Phelps! Woo hoo!
NBCLACKEY: Um, no. He left Beijing already.
NBCHONCHO: Oh. :-( What then?
NBCLACKEY: On Matthew Mitcham’s last dive during the Men’s 10 M platform—
NBCHONCHO: Men’s what?
NBCLACKEY: 10 M platform. You know, diving.
NBCHONCHO: Oh. Don’t really like that.
NBCLACKEY: Really? Why?
NBCHONCHO: Speedos
NBCLACKEY: ???
NBCHONCHO: Speedos are too revealing.  
NBCLACKEY: I see. You must hate women’s beach volleyball then.
NBCHONCHO: ???
NBCLACKEY: Nevermind.
NBCHONCHO: With speedos u see all of a guy’s junk. Nasty
NBCHONCHO: And gay. Besides 10 m isn’t that high. Not impressed. My ten year old can do that.
NBCLACKEY: Um, that’s meters, not feet.
NBCHONCHO: Oh, yeah. Still what is that? Fifteen feet?
NBCLACKEY: Actually, its more than double that. 32 feet.
NBCHONCHO: Stupid European measurements.

More after the break...

When he's written about on Fox Sports, apparently!

Sorry if we're a little Matthew Mitcham-happy today, but it's pretty exciting to have one of the biggest surprise wins of the 2008 Olympics be by the only out gay male athlete in the games. Unless, of course, the media doesn't decide to mention that historic point.

In an odd turn, the Australian branch of FOX's sports website has removed the words "openly homosexual" from its write-up about local hero — and open homosexual — Matthew Mitcham, who celebrated his win on-camera with his partner, whom he mentioned by name as his partner. (If you have the time and the patience for exceedingly small-minded commentary, read the user comments below the story to get an idea of what happened ... and t/y Wayman for the tip.)

Then there's the question of why NBC opted to not cover this particular aspect of Mitcham's story, which you can read more about here.

Soooooo ... today's Pop! Quiz is:

When should "openly gay" be part of the story?

(Images courtesy of NBC and Getty Images)

The Olympics have a bounty of big bulging men on their roster but the men of Greco-Roman wrestling take the cake so far for the most homoerotic imagery of Beijing 2008. The only thing better than watching men with broad shoulders straddling a pommel horse or gliding through the water in skin-tight Speedos is watching two men roll around on the floor with their crotches in each others' faces.

Get ready for the men of Olympic Greco-Roman Wrestling...

Hottie Adam Wheeler (USA)

Just relax and breathe through it: Dremiel Byers (USA) tops the competition

France's Steeve Guenot hugs it out

Is that Wolverine? Nope ... Manuchar Kvirkelia, GEO

Lots more after the break!

Celebrated gay dancer/choreographer Bill T. Jones attends the premiere of HBO's The Black List
(Photo: Getty)

In a continued effort to bring you all that is important in the world of gay entertainment and ensure that you are being spoon-fed images of gorgeous, commoditized manflesh, we present the newly-minted AfterElton Briefs. Following the usual assortment of carefully-selected news items, interested readers can find a refreshing pic of a hot man in underwear after the jump. Yes, we're serious.

• The next season of America's Next Top Model will feature the show's first ever transgender competitor, Isis, effectively disabling the 90% of the blogosphere whose idea of "covering" the show consists of repeatedly remarking that all the contestants look transgender already.

• "You've out-gayed us, Peacock!": NBC runs an "Ab fab" feature asking readers to identify male Olympic swimmers by their washboards.

• Supposed comedian/actor Dane Cook trashes the poster for his new film because it looks like he's wearing lip gloss in the photo (um ... duh?). I imagine that in a few short years when his inexplicable career is in the toilet and this poster is all he has left to hug at night, he won't be so nit-picky.

Jake Gyllenhaal and his Persian rug

• There were a few pics of the first glimpse of a beefed-up Jake Gyllenaal in Prince of Persia shape floating around yesterday, and today there are tons of them over here. What do folks think of the new Hugh Jackman-ed physique? (Notice I didn't ask about the hair. We're just going to pretend it isn't happening.)

• The stage production of the musical Forever Plaid has been filmed for the screen, with David Hyde Pierce in the role of the celestial MC. For more on the project, check out the movie's website.

• Author Patricia Nell Warren (The Front Runner) gave a great interview to NPR recently about gay athletes, and discussed her collection of essays about gay athletes, The Lavender Locker Room. (t/y Thomasina for the tip)

And today's Briefs are brought to you by...

(All pics courtesy of NBC)

If you're like me, you've spent the past five nights staying up way past your bedtime to catch all of the Olympics action, or rather all of the hot toned male bodies that writhe across your screen in HD! The Summer Olympics are a smörgåsbord of man candy and there's a rainbow of fruit flavors for all of us to snack on.

Yesterday we brought you the guys of gymnastics but today it's my personal faves, those boys dominating all of the action in the Water Cube, the male swimmers!  Let's get wet, shall we?

Ricky Berens, Ryan Lochte and Michael Phelps, USA

Yoshihiro Okumura, JAP

Brendan Hansen, USA

Eamon Sullivan, AUS

Lots more after the break!

The USA and China teams 
(All pics: Getty Images)

Okay, does that headline do a fairly good job of making it seem that this post is somehow more noble than just an opportunity to ogle the powerful glutes and impossibly toned triceps of some of the hottest men in athletics? No? Well, I'll try harder next time.

For now, enjoy some hot technically impressive action shots from the Men's Artistic Gymnastics competition, in which the USA team took home the bronze medal after China (gold) and Japan (silver). I'm sticking to my theory that they only won because they're the only teams that didn't have jet-lag. Rematch!

Jonathan Horton hugs teammate Justin Spring (USA)

 Fabian Hambüchen, GER

Kai Wen Tan (USA)

Lots more after the break!

This week's Project Runway was all about the Olympics. The topic was of zero interest to most of the designsketeers, so it's probably not surprising that the episode wasn't one of the best, with more forced catchphrasing, more tired outfits, and some unconvincing workroom drama.

On the bright side, we also got two of the most hilariously inappropriate designs in the history of the series, and our first real tears during the judging. So toss your schadenfreude in your gym bag, sling it over your shoulder, and come with me. We're going to the Olympics!

Oh ... well, actually, we're going to a big track and field center that looks like the facility where my parents would send me every summer for "sports camp" (more on that some other time ... you bring the tequila and the tissues). I'd like to say that they look uniformly horrified, but in truth it's pretty much Team Gay and the Girls, Interrupted who seem afraid that they're going to be purse-napped by a speed skater or something. Mighty Joe Straight, Korto and Terri are completely thrilled to be there. Take note.

Tim tells them that they're going to have to run laps or something and suddenly a tiny little blur comes zooming at them from nowhere on rollerblades. Hey, it's ... it's ... okay, I have no idea. A singing telegram? An escaped Xanadu chorus boy? No, it's Apolo Ohno, gold medalist in speed skating. Yes, this challenge will be Olympics-themed! Seriously, just look at the faces of these kids. It's like someone told them that they're going to spend the day organizing Michael Kors's bronzers.

Speaking of bronze, let's just get Blayne out of the way for the week so we don't have to think about him anymore, shall we? He's quickly become the most annoying contestant ever, which is probably his intention. This episode focuses on his tanning fixation, which is as foreign to my pasty ass as the Olympics are to him. He points out that he tans every other day, noting that "some people to to the gym, I go tanning," and suggests that his lack of tanning time is making him weak. What is he, Wall-E?

So the designsketeers are set loose in the Museum of Olympic Fashion or whatever (it's a small room, believe me) and some of them gravitate to some questionable designs from the turn of the century that don't exactly scream "Olympics!" to me. One picture looks like a bunch of Minnie Pearl impersonators at an Easter egg roll. Another looks like it was taken at one of those old-timey pizza parlors where they have unicycles on the walls.

Okay, this could get awesome real fast.

Back in the workroom, things get ugly (in more ways than one). Mighty Joe Straight tells Tim he's working on a "skort" ... for a second I'm like, isn't that one of those spoons you get with your mashed potatoes at KFC? How she gonna wear that?! 

This is not a skort

Finally, four weeks in, we get some workroom drama. It seems that Daniel and Kelsey (Kitchy? Kitt Kittredge?) are too loud for the other designers, particularly Mighty Joe Straight. His general level off pisstivity is raised to the point where he actually snaps at Daniel for daring to sit at "his" sewing machine (in a room with about 20 empty machines, mind you). Daniel is floored, and Joe tells the cameras that you're going to have drama with that many "queens" in the workroom. 

Ohno he didn't.