![]() ![]() Louganis also produced a video diary called Looking To the Light, which picked up where Breaking the Surface left off. Breaking the Surface: The Greg Louganis Story is a 1997 television film about diver Greg Louganis based on the 1996 best-selling book Breaking the Surface co-written by Greg Louganis and Eric Marcus that stayed on top of the New York Times Best Seller list for 5 weeks. This is about him coming out as an HIV-positive gay man.Īs a follow-up to the success of the book, Canadian television and film director Steven Hilliard Stern directed Breaking the Surface: The Greg Louganis Story in 1997, starring Mario Lopez as Louganis, with Louganis also appearing in certain scenes of the television film and as narrator. Louganis chronicles his winning of back-to-back double gold medals at the 1984 Summer Olympics and 1988 Summer Olympics, and his self-doubt and lack of confidence that held him back personally and professionally because of concealing his sexual orientation as a gay athlete. The book spent five weeks at number one on the New York Times Best Seller list. In 1998 Lopez began appearing in the cop show Pacific Blue, described as Baywatch on bikes. ![]() 29 January 1960, San Diego, California) in the telemovie, Breaking the Surface, which chronicled Louganis¹s struggle to come to terms with the pressures of diving, AIDS and homosexuality. Breaking the Surface is a best-selling book by Greg Louganis, co-written with Eric Marcus published in 1996. In 1996 he portrayed adopted Gold Olympic diver Greg Louganis (b. ![]()
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