A lot has changed since Caitlyn Jenner walked away from the 1976 Summer Olympics an international champion. To start, her name was Bruce then and she identified publicly as a man.
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Four decades after being granted the gold, the highly famous public figure has returned to Sports Illustrated to grace the cover once again, nearly 40 years after her first appearance. Today, she poses on the cover in a gold sequin jumpsuit, brunette tresses cascading around her face and a red manicure framing her waist.
‘It’s a picture that brings attention to this issue,’ she told Sports Illustrated. ‘That’s the important thing. That’s why I wore the medal.’
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‘For those two days in July of 1976, I was the best in the world at what I did,’ Jenner told the magazine. ‘On the other hand, the decathlon was my best friend, and that was over. I lost my beard.’