Caitlyn Marie Jenner (born William Bruce Jenner; October 28, 1949) is an American television personality and retired Olympic gold medal–winning decathlete.
Jenner played college football for the Graceland Yellowjackets before incurring a knee injury that required surgery. Convinced by Olympic decathlete Jack Parker's coach, L. D. Weldon, to try the decathlon, Jenner won the men's decathlon event at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, setting a third successive world record and gaining fame as "an all-American hero".
Given the unofficial title of "world's greatest athlete", Jenner established a career in television, film, writing, auto racing, business, and as a Playgirl cover model.
Caitlyn Jenner feels for the athletes whose Olympic dreams have been put on hold. During an interview with ET’s Lauren Zima on Tuesday, Jenner opened up about the International Olympic Committee’s decision to postpone the upcoming Summer Games in Tokyo, Japan, until 2021, as a result of the coronavirus outbreak.
Jenner won the gold medal in the men’s decathlon competition at the 1976 games in Montreal. “Obviously we have to do what’s right, and I think they’re probably doing what’s right by postponing it a year,” Jenner says. “But from an athlete standpoint, it’s devastating.” “I mean… when I was training, I trained those four years to compete on the 29th and 30th of July in 1976, and all my training was all geared towards that, to peak on
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