Ji Wallace

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Sport: Trampoline

"I truly appreciate the symbolism of a multi-sport event — the Opening Ceremony, what it means to be there and to compete. The Gay Games can be anyone's Olympics and anyone's dream. The opportunity to compete at the Gay Games can be anyone's life-changing moment."

At a glance: Ji won the silver medal in the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, wowing the crowd afterward with a joyous celebration running around the competition floor ... He retired from trampoline to pursue aerial skiing, but Ji has since returned to trampoline training with hope of qualifying for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing ... He has indeed "bounced back" to being selected for the 2007 Australian Men's Trampoline Team competing in World Cup competitions in Russia and Poland and the upcoming World Championships in Quebec ...

Earlier in his career Ji won several national titles and made an international breakthrough in 1996 by winning gold in the DMT (double mini trampoline) discipline at the 19th Trampoline World Championships in Vancouver ... In world championships held in Sydney, he set a still-unbroken world record for completing a jump with the highest degree of difficulty in the DMT, a triple-triple ... He came out publicly as gay in 2005 ... Ji is the first Australian to be named a Gay Games Ambassador.