UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There's your winner.</s>JIM HILL, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Greg Louganis was looked up to by everyone in Olympic diving. Here was a young man who really did what had never been done before. He won gold medals in both the springboard diving and the platform diving. So I think all Olympic divers look to him as the person to aspire toward, to emulate. He was the gold standard. And then to see him afflicted, to hear him admit that he was HIV positive, I'm sure it was just tragic for these other divers. It's not that they lost a hero, but their hero was stricken.</s>HILL (voice-over): Louganis's disclosure cast a new light on a 1988 accident in which he struck his head while performing this dive in Olympic competition.</s>HILL: He was really tortured over the idea that there he was with his head being stitched up by the doctor, and he knew that he really had the responsibility to tell the doctor at that point that he was HIV positive, and he agonized over this decision.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: If I would have known in '88, I would have still dove. I would have still followed him. I would have still followed him even after he hit his head.</s>HILL: For him to come out and admit to being gay, to admit that he was HIV positive, both of those took a tremendous amount of courage, I'm sure. He really is a rare athlete.
CNN 20: Louganis Reveals Illness, February 24, 1995