Is Gus Kenworthy Making a Comeback?

Could this signal a skiing comeback for Kenworthy, as his caption might allude to?

Hard to say. Since his time in the freeskiing limelight, Kenworthy has pivoted and seems focused instead on his life outside the mountains.

Earlier this year, he appeared on the podcast Who's the A**hole?, telling the host Katya that acting is what he now wants to pursue. His previous acting credits include American Horror Story: 1984, 80 for Brady, and the remake of Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead.

“I think the thing I like about it is that, like, you can kind of do it forever,” Kenworthy said to the host, describing acting.“With skiing, with sports, there’s such an expiration on it,” but with acting, you can keep “getting better and better.”

Kenworthy officially wrapped up his professional skiing career in 2022 at the Beijing, China, Winter Olympics, but has dabbled a bit in competition since then.

In 2024, during his fifth ski day of that winter season, he dropped into the Red Bull Cascade course at Solitude Mountain Resort, Utah, capping off a qualifying run with a flawless double cork. The time away from snow didn’t seem to be preventing Kenworthy from doing his thing.

The Telluride, Colorado, native shot into the mainstream consciousness after participating in an all-American sweep of the 2014 Sochi, Russia, Winter Olympics slopestyle podium alongside Joss Christensen and Nick Goepper.

The following year, Kenworthy announced on Twitter (now X)—and in an article for ESPN—that he was gay, becoming, practically overnight, what the BBC called “an LGBTQ+ icon.” It was a landmark moment, with Kenworthy having established himself as one of—if not the—first openly gay action sports athletes in history.