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
The only thing I did is, I wore the same pair of socks in every decathlon I was ever in.
It hurts every day when you practice hard, but when this decathlon is over, I got the rest of my life to recuperate. Who cares how bad it hurts?
If I were to compare the Olympic decathlon to fatherhood, I would say fatherhood is a lot tougher.
I called Daley Thompson after the Games of '84, when he won. He'd had this phenomenal decathlon for nine events - and then he went out there and jogged the 1,500 meters and missed the world record by, like, three points.
What I went through in 1976, it's the same today: It's about all the pressure that you feel, the anxiety, the family, and everything that surrounds the Games, and then getting there knowing this is your big chance, and you're able to come through. It's such a satisfying thing.
Being the world's greatest athlete just does not get it done on the golf course.
I got into sports because that was a way to prove your masculinity. I was good at it.
I have gotten more flak for being a conservative Republican than I have for being trans.
I have found that women have so much unleashed power that they don't really utilize because they don't have confidence in themselves about who they are and what they can do.
I don't have anything Olympic in our house - no pictures, none of that stuff. Consciously I do that. With 10 children, I don't want to hold that over their heads.
My knee has always given me problems. But it got to the point where I actually had to start giving up things. And I hate that.
I have struggled with identity all my life. It's not like something that just happened last week.
I have always actually been with and attracted to very strong women, and I think I've learned a lot from them.
I have made a lot of mistakes raising the four Jenner kids.