Caitlyn Jenner
Caitlyn Jenner
Caitlyn Jenner, formerly known as Bruce Jenner, is an American television personality and retired Olympic gold medal-winning decathlete. Jenner was a college football player for the Graceland Yellowjackets before incurring a knee injury requiring surgery. Coach L. D. Weldon, who had coached Olympic decathlete Jack Parker, convinced Jenner to try the decathlon. After intense training, Jenner won the 1976 Olympics decathlon title at the Montreal Summer Olympics, gaining fame as "an all-American hero". Jenner set a third successive world record while winning...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAthlete
Date of Birth28 October 1949
CountryUnited States of America
For all intents and purposes, I'm a woman.
Bruce always had to tell a lie. He was always living that lie. Caitlyn doesn't have any secrets.
I always thought everybody else was better than me.
I have had two knee surgeries on my right knee: that was my jumping leg that I jumped off for years and years.
Life wasn't easy growing up; it was frustrating. If I had been a better reader, then that would have come easily, sports would have come easily, everything would have come easily, and I never would have realized that the way you get ahead in life is hard work.
If I wasn't dyslexic, I probably wouldn't have won the Games. If I had been a better reader, then that would have come easily, sports would have come easily... and I never would have realized that the way you get ahead in life is hard work.
We have a rich tradition here in the United States of great decathletes, which is amazing 'cause we have absolutely no program to develop these guys. Zero. There's nothing. They do it on their own, just like I did back in '76.
There is kind of an underground conservative movement in Hollywood, really.
You still think we can go out there, and we can all run the mile in four minutes, you know, your mind still thinks that, but then you go out and actually try to do it, it's kind of scary.
You don't go out and change your gender for a television show, O.K.? It ain't happening. I don't care who you are.
Anti-inflammatories always seemed to work well for my joints, but the problem was you couldn't take them all the time.
As an athlete, my health has always been important to me.
Some people look gender non-conforming because they want to look that way - they don't want to conform to society's expectations.
Speed is more important than endurance in the decathlon.