Kim Kardashian’s step-father Bruce Jenner involved in fatal US crash | The Indian Express Kim Kardashian’s step-father Bruce Jenner involved in fatal US crash Kim Kardashian’s step-father Bruce Jenner involved in fatal US crash The seven people were taken to the hospital for evaluation after the crash on Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu. By: Associated Press | Malibu | Updated: February 8, 2015 5:46 pm There’s no indication Bruce Jenner was being chased by paparazzi who were nearby when the vehicle he was driving became involved in a four-vehicle crash that killed a woman, authorities said Saturday. There’s no indication Bruce Jenner was being chased by paparazzi who were nearby when the vehicle he was driving became involved in a four-vehicle crash that killed a woman, authorities said Saturday. The Kardashian family patriarch and Olympic gold medalist wasn’t hurt, but seven people were taken to the hospital for evaluation after the crash that happened shortly after noon on Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu, said Los Angeles County sheriff’s Sgt. Philip Brooks. The moment of impact was captured by celebrity photographers who quickly posted the images on the Internet, but Philips said there was no evidence Jenner was trying to get away from them.

Brooks said Jenner cooperated with investigators, passed a field sobriety test and voluntarily submitted a blood sample to determine whether he was intoxicated. Jenner’s publicist, Alan Nierob, said Jenner wasn’t hurt, but he offered no additional details. Jenner was going north when his black Cadillac Escalade rear-ended a Lexus sedan that had just struck the back of a black Toyota Prius, Brooks said. The Lexus veered into oncoming traffic in a southbound lane and collided head-on with a black Hummer. The driver of the Lexus — a woman in her 70s — was pronounced dead at the scene. Photos of the crash site showed the white Lexus mangled in the front and back, facing the Hummer, which had a heavily damaged engine and its hood popped open. Jenner’s Escalade, which was pulling an off-road vehicle, had a damaged front end. The crash occurred aboon a stretch of road sandwiched between the beach and the Santa Monica Mountains. It comes at a time of widespread talk that Jenner, 65, is becoming a woman.

Though Jenner himself has declined public comment, those in his inner circles have not challenged the mounting speculation that he is preparing to live as a woman and perhaps will appear in a new reality series about his transition. Jenner’s appearance has gradually become more traditionally feminine, and his mother, Esther Jenner, told The Associated Press on Wednesday that she had spoken with her son about his private and public journey. Jenner won a gold medal in the men’s decathlon at the 1976 Summer Games, but he is best known to a younger generation as Kim Kardashian ’s stepfather. He and Kris Jenner frequently appeared on the reality series “Keeping Up with the Kardashians” along with their children, and the pair’s relationship and its troubles have been featured prominently on the show. The two finalized their divorce late last year, ending 23 years of marriage. Tags: Kim Kardashian pledges support for stepfather Bruce Jenner | Reuters Mon Apr 27, 2015 | 2:03 PM EDT Kim Kardashian pledges support for stepfather Bruce Jenner Television personality Kim Kardashian.

Reuters/Mario Anzuoni NEW YORK Reality television star Kim Kardashian pledged her full support on Monday for her stepfather, Olympic gold medalist Bruce Jenner, who said last week that he identifies as a woman. Kardashian, 34, spoke out for the first time about her stepfather in an interview on NBC's "Today" show with Matt Lauer saying what is most important to her and her family is that Jenner is happy. "As long as he happy, and he wants to live his life, however he wants to live it, that just makes me happy, and I support him 100 percent," Kardashian said. Jenner, 65, became the most high-profile American to come out as transgender when he told journalist Diane Sawyer on ABC's "20/20" news magazine show that he was transitioning to become a woman. Jenner, who won a gold medal in the decathalon at the 1976 Olympics in Montreal, told Sawyer that "for all intents and purposes I am a woman." About 17 million people watched the show.

It was also the top worldwide trend on Twitter with 8.1 million people seeing one or more of the 972,000 tweets about it. "I am really happy for him in living his life the way he wants to live it and that he has found inner peace and just pure happiness. That is what life is about," Kardashian added. She said the family is still adjusting to the news but they are really close and going through family therapy. They have also spoken to organizations such as GLAAD about how to be respectful and supportive for him. "Bruce wants us to feel as comfortable as possible and to take everything at our pace and we love him for that," she added. "He's done a really good job of walking us through it." Jenner, the patriarch of TV's Kardashian clan, has been married and divorced three times and is the father of six biological children and four stepchildren.

(Reporting by Patricia Reaney; Editing by Piya Sinha-Roy and Ted Botha) ADVERTISEMENT Bruce Jenner: ‘Being a dad is more important than winning the Olympics’ Bruce Jenner: ‘Being a dad is more important than winning the Olympics’ Parade.com Tweet Share Bruce Jenner has gone from Olympic champ to reality TV star since winning the 1976 decathlon.The 62-year-old star, who will be a special corespondent for E! at the London Olympics, talked to Parade about Olympic fame, "Keeping Up with the Kardashians," and more. Photo Flashback: Olympians Who've Graced the Iconic Wheaties Box On his favorite Olympic memory. "Winning! That's about as good as you can get. When I won the Games in 1976, I wasn't shocked because I was the number one guy in the world; nobody had beaten me in three years. I kind of expected to win, but it was the last meet of my life because I knew I was retiring after it was over. It was a feeling of pure satisfaction that I put so much time and energy into this thing and that it all worked out. I accomplished everything in the sport that you could possibly accomplish.

That was very gratifying to me. On the other side of it, it was kind of a bittersweet moment. I was walking away from my best friend. I started crying afterwards because all the direction that I had in my life to train was over. The decathlon is not that type of event where you can do it for fun, you're either in or you're out, and I knew I had to get out. I had to move on to the more important things in life because this is just sports, it's not really life." Exclusive Video: Olympic Swimmer Ryan Lochte Reveals His Surprising Dream Job On dealing with overnight fame. It was kind of interesting. I was in New York a couple weeks before the Games and nobody said hi. After the games were over with, there were people stopping their cars and jumping out to shake my hand. It shows you the power of television. I never felt like I had changed. but everybody looked at me differently. I don't have a big ego, but everybody around you changes how they treat you. It changes your life dramatically.

I dove right into the television business and here it is 36 years later and I'm still working." Mark Spitz on His Olympic Legacy, Michael Phelps, and That Iconic Mustache On sharing his gold medal with his daughters. "During the 2000 Games in Sydney, Australia, I was sitting on the couch with Kendall and Kylie watching a medal ceremony, and I gave my little girls a nudge and said, 'Daddy's got one of those medals.' And they said, 'Really? No way!' So I ran upstairs to the safe and took the medal out and they went 'Aww dad, that's so cool.' The only problem was that I only had one medal for two little girls. So they took turns wearing it every commercial break. That's why you win Olympic gold medals!" On his decision to share his life with the rest of the world on "Keeping Up with the Kardashians." "When Kris and I were talking about doing this show many years ago, the whole family decided to give it a shot. Little did we know where it was going. The bottom line about the show is that's it's about a loving family. No matter how much drama there is, everybody makes up at the end.

And that's the way life should be." On how Olympic fame compares to reality TV fame. "The Games are so unique — you take on the world and that's a very gratifying feeling. Reality television is not that big a deal, but it does bring you fame. I am part of the baby boomer generation and they kind of grew up with me with the Wheaties commercials and the television appearances. Now, with the success of "Keeping Up with the Kardashians," it's a total different audience. It's women ages 18-42 — a huge audiences who never saw me. They only know me as Kim's stepdad or Khloe's stepdad or Kendall and Kylie's dad.They don't know what I did at the Olympics, which is fine. Being a dad is much more important than winning the Olympic games." More Celebrity Features on Yahoo!: Bruce Jenner Interview - Bruce Jenner Olympic Athlete Published in the June/July 2012 issue Fathers suffer a curse, and Bruce Jenner knows this curse better than most: The day you become a father, you stop being who you were. In the eyes of your children, your life began when theirs did.

The strange thing about Jenner, now that he's sixty-two years old: It's not just his glorious past that has disappeared. It's as though all of him, every previous incarnation of him, has been flooded out of view: by the fame of his adopted family — his third wife, the former-and-sometimes-still Kris Kardashian, her son, Rob, and her collection of daughters, Kourtney, Kim, Khloé, Kendall, and Kylie, the last two also Jenner's — by the glib demands of reality-TV story lines, by dubious plastic surgery and eyebrows plucked to oblivion. Even in his own home, that familiar Spanish castle with the fountain splashing out front, you have to look hard to find those few traces of his existence. ("My mom's house," Kim calls it.) All of the photographs are of the children; all of the memorabilia and props are the product of their successes, not his. There is no red singlet in a frame; his gold medal is nowhere to be found. For the most part, Bruce Jenner, Olympian, has been banished to the garage.

Advertisement - Continue Reading Below Right now, that's where he is, cleaning some stray grass clippings off his Goblin 700, a fluorescent-green remote-control helicopter. He owns many remote-control helicopters, and they are on rows of shelves in a corner of the garage. Some of his other toys surround him: a Harley-Davidson, a Porsche kept under a black cover, his golf clubs, which he tries to swing every day. (Even here, however, he can't escape the influence of the hurricane women in his life, a pink Vespa scooter leaning nearby.) But it's the helicopters that receive the bulk of his attention. He has just been out flying the Goblin 700 in his pristine backyard, for the benefit of the ever-present camera crew that films Keeping Up With the Kardashians, which began its seventh season in May. (He's also dressed up for the occasion, sporting a flashy leather jacket.) They watched him fly the helicopter, and sixteen-year-old Kendall and fourteen-year-old Kylie did, too, for a few minutes — the episode currently being shot centers on them — until the sun grew too hot and they vanished back inside. Then the camera crew left as well.

But there was Jenner, still in his backyard, flying his Goblin 700. And with it, he was doing magic tricks. Most Popular Flying these helicopters is not easy. "If you own one, you've crashed it," Jenner says with a smile, because he is almost always smiling. They're especially difficult because they require the operator to think from an unnatural perspective. Jenner has a flight simulator in his garage, a black computer perched on another shelf, and since he began flying these helicopters three years ago, he has spent hundreds of hours alone out here, on that simulator, training himself to see the world in all of its dimensions. Although he has been a real pilot for a very long time (and is a principal at Bruce Jenner Aviation, which sells corporate aircraft), he still had to adapt his brain to the peculiar demands of the Goblin 700. Depending on whether he has the helicopter's tail facing toward him or away from him, on whether he's flying the helicopter right side up or inverted, all the rules of flight change. Even something as simple as a gentle hover takes a delicate, practiced touch. Jenner still possesses an instinctive physical confidence, still moves with an athlete's grace.

And there he was, just a few minutes ago, his helicopter fluorescent green against the bright blue sky, defying gravity and physics with every spin, stall, and roll. In that moment, Jenner was a man of nearly perfect competence. Neither his children nor the cameras were there to see it. They were gathered in the driveway, toward the front of the house. They are still there. Either Kendall or Kylie, it's hard to tell which, is having some sort of animated disagreement with Kris. The cameras are there, in the girls' made-up faces, and a boom mic is raised over their shining heads, recording every word of their spirited discussion, to be edited into a cohesive narrative about the perils of being a teenage girl in modern celebrity America. Advertisement - Continue Reading Below Jenner, meanwhile, has finished his unrecorded acrobatics and returned to his unlit garage. He picks the last blade of grass from the body of his helicopter, and he folds its propeller so that both rotors point toward the tail, and he gently slides a protective sleeve over them, and he puts his Goblin 700 back into place on the shelf, each step as meticulous and careful as the last.

He stops for a moment to marvel at the tricks that more talented others can do with the same machine. "It's amazing to me that someone can even think that fast," he says. Then, because he knows the cameras are no doubt done with him for the day, he heads inside to take off his leather jacket and change out of his fancy clothes. In the driveway, voices are rising. The moment: Jenner crossing the finish line of the fifteen hundred meters to seal his Gold Medal in the decathlon at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. Tony Duffy/Getty Images This is who Bruce Jenner was: "I was a dyslexic kid," he says, now in his nylon pants and gray USA Track & Field T-shirt, sitting back by the pool, the cameras still occupied with his wife and daughters. He failed second grade in Yorktown Heights, New York, and was plagued by low self-esteem: "I always thought everybody else was better than me." Then in the fifth grade he had a race at school, and he won. Jenner was the fastest, and he held on to that feeling for dear life. Sports became his outlet, and because he was blessed before he was cursed, he was good at everything he tried.

He was born limitless. Eventually, he found his way to the decathlon, a grueling series of ten track-and-field disciplines, including sprint and distance running, hurdles, discus, javelin, and pole vaulting. The decathlon was and remains the best measure of the greatest athlete on earth. Advertisement - Continue Reading Below In 1972, Jenner went to Eugene, Oregon, to compete for a spot on the U. S. Olympic team. He was a long shot: Only the top three competitors made the team, and Jenner was not ranked even in the top ten. After the first five events, he was rooted firmly in eleventh place. After the sixth event, the 110-meter hurdles, he was still in eleventh. After the discus, he edged up to tenth, with just three events to go. After the pole vault, he jumped from tenth to seventh, and after the javelin, he climbed from seventh to fifth.

(He recites each of these details from memory, forty years after the fact.) Then Jenner did the math: Given the decathlon's complicated system of points, in the last event, the fifteen hundred meters, he had to beat the man then occupying third place by eighteen seconds. Jenner ran, shaving eight seconds off his personal best time and eclipsing the formerly third-place competitor by twenty-one seconds. He had made the team and was off to Munich. Most Popular There, he finished tenth, well short of the podium. But Jenner watched the winner receive his gold medal, and he made up his mind. A photographer had taken a black-and-white picture of Jenner crossing the final finish line in Munich: hair flowing, muscles rippling. Jenner had that photograph blown up, and he put it up on the wall in his austere apartment, over his couch. Except that he didn't center it. He pushed it off to the left, because he was saving a spot for the next photograph, the one that would be taken when he crossed the finish line in triumph in Montreal in 1976.

He trained for eight hours a day, every day, for four years, and every night, Jenner came home and looked at that empty space on his wall. "I stared at that hole," he says, "and knew what was going to go there." It takes an extraordinary man to bend such a grand reality to his will. "My greatest gift in life was being dyslexic," Jenner says. "It made me special. It made me different. If I had not been dyslexic, I wouldn't have needed sports. I would have been like every other kid. Instead, I found my one thing, and I was never going to let go of it. That little dyslexic kid is always in the back of your head." There is a video of Jenner's Montreal triumph. Jim McKay narrates it. The video opens with film of Jenner running the final turn of the final event of the first day, the four hundred meters. He is wearing blue shorts and a red singlet, number 935. McKay's unmistakable voice begins: Strong though he is, just as lean and hard and well trained as he could possibly be, still, this is the face of a tired, breathless man, reaching for reserves not used until now.

And that's the purpose of the decathlon: to test the total man, body and spirit, to the last ounce of energy. The video then freezes on Jenner's agonized face: his eyes blackened, his teeth biting into his bottom lip. It looks a lot like the photograph that was taken when he finally won the gold the following afternoon, shattering the world record, only in that photograph — in color this time, the photograph that Sports Illustrated put on its cover — his mouth is open, because he is screaming in victory. "I was as close to perfection as I could possibly get," he says today. "I got everything out of myself." Bruce Jenner was, indisputably, the greatest athlete on the planet. He was possibly the greatest in its history. Advertisement - Continue Reading Below "It's about working when nobody's watching," he says. Not long after he says that, some speakers fire up out by the pool. The theme song from Keeping Up With the Kardashians — finger snaps and that infuriatingly catchy whistle — rings out across the sparkling water. "That's our doorbell," Jenner says, looking down at his chest. He looks up and starts to laugh, first a little, and soon a lot.

"It wasn't my idea!" he says, wiping his eyes. "It's not me! It's my wife!" Jeff Minton Kris Kardashian Jenner is striking, her huge, dark eyes are striking — looking at her, you can see exactly where Kim comes from — but they rarely settle on any one place for long. Her hectic days are scheduled to the minute. She sits behind the glass desk in her home office ("Well, it's technically hers," Jenner says, even though there isn't a single indication that it might ever be his), surrounded by countless photographs of her famous children and towering piles of mail, juggling her phone, tapping away at her computer. The family's publicist and "brand manager," Noelle Keshishian — yes — appears in Kris's door, just in case there is a short pause that might be more productively filled. "What makes me excited," Kris says, "you have to stop and think about ... [She checks her e-mail.] Wait, who wants to get on the phone at two? [She looks at Noelle.] We should get on the phone with Kecia, too... . You have to stop ... [She goes back to her e-mail.] Pearl wants to get on the phone... .

[She looks back at Noelle.] Can you tell her yes? At 1:45? All right, cool. You have to stop and think ..." She never does finish the thought. Kris is the center of this operation, and it is an operation. Somewhere there must be a map with plastic artillery on it. "Being a celebrity is a business," Bruce Jenner says. "That's how you have to look at this, and by that measure, this is a very successful business." Today, Kim is on the covers of four of the five biggest gossip magazines; tomorrow, there will be panting speculation about her supposed hookup with Kanye West, because she will be seen wearing the same leather pants on consecutive days; a few days later, it will be Khloé's turn, after her husband, basketball star Lamar Odom, will be put on the inactive list by the Dallas Mavericks. "You see them everywhere, all the time," Jenner says. "There's a reason for that." Advertisement - Continue Reading Below Jenner knows fame. Olympic fame, in particular, is intense but almost always temporary. Jenner had dedicated his life to this one thing, and he had done it, and now it was over.

"My best friend, gone," he says. It was the most final of breakups. He never did put up that photograph in the empty space on his apartment wall. He never ran competitively again; he even left his vaulting poles at Olympic Stadium. (He still doesn't know their whereabouts. The last he heard, they had been shipped to a young athlete in San Jose, circa 1977.) He enjoyed some lucrative endorsements, appearing on the Wheaties box; General Mills recently reissued it, just ahead of the 2012 Summer Games. "I guess I haven't done anything too wrong," Jenner says, smiling some more. He gave acting a try, but that was an honest mistake. (His single theatrical release, a Village People/Steve Guttenberg vehicle called Can't Stop the Music, will haunt him more than any single frame of Keeping Up With the Kardashians ever could: supershort jorts.) Most Popular He also got married, twice, and divorced, twice. Each marriage produced two children: Burt and Cassandra, and then Brandon and Brody, those princes of Malibu. His children lived with their mothers, and he didn't see them often, because everything in his life had gone ugly.

Khloé, the Kardashian daughter to whom he is perhaps the closest, phrases it gently but clearly: "He maybe wasn't able to give his children what they needed." Then in 1990, he met Kris. She was newly separated from her husband, Robert Kardashian, a lawyer who later became famous for his role as one of O. J. Simpson's defenders. Jenner and Kris didn't have much in common, except that they independently liked to give their same-sex offspring names that started with the first letter of their own name. Seven months later, they were married, and they had two more children, two more daughters with names beginning with K. "We're exact opposites," Kris says, "in that he's more stern and serious, he's kind of the voice of reason, and I am ..." And here she really does stop and think. "You've got to remember that this is my second life," she finally continues. "I was a housewife and a mother; that was my priority for the first half of my life. Now, after my first litter grew up, I had two more kids with Bruce, and he wanted to be really involved, and I went to work.

He made that decision, because with his first kids, he maybe wasn't the best father. With us, he got a second chance." On the show, Jenner can seem emasculated, as though his testicles are in a jar somewhere, along with the rest of his former presence, this once-proud man drowning in a sea of estrogen and petty humiliations. He can seem that way because that's essentially what he is. Bruce Jenner has suffered the curse of fathers everywhere, but he has suffered it more dramatically and more publicly than perhaps any other American dad. There are entire generations who have no idea that he did what he did, that this man once flew through the air on the end of a fiberglass pole, that he was once just as lean and hard and well trained as he could possibly be. They don't know that because his framed singlet is in storage somewhere, it turns out, and his gold medal is locked away in a safe. He's asked whether he might retrieve it. He just shakes his head. Instead, he's been doing quiet, invisible things, like mastering the always-changing rules of flight or playing golf or driving his kids to school — or at least that was something he also once did until Kendall recently turned sixteen.

"He's heartbroken that he can't drive the car pool anymore," Kourtney says. "He really looked forward to that." But if there is a moral center in this crazy house, he is still that. "He's just such a good person with such a good heart," Khloé says. "He's such a strong man," Kim says. They all talk about him with surprising warmth; the Kardashian girls were young when he married their mother. Kourtney, the eldest, was twelve, and she resented her new stepfather at first. "But he didn't give up on me," she says. "He never gave up." What those people who hate this family from afar can't see is the very particular love that stamps it. Bruce Jenner has taken it upon himself to rescue his ridiculous extended clan by doing what none of its other members will ever do: He has elected to lose. The person in the house who has most earned his fame has chosen to accept the least of it. "I'm done with competition," he says. He says that in response to a question about his helicopters, whether he might fly them in the professional events that have been cropping up around the country, but he means it about everything.

Jenner has made decisions, now, here, during his own second life. He has made up his mind once again. His singlet is in storage because he wants it to be. He's the one who locked his medal away in the safe. "Going through what I went through," he says, "being that obsessed, is not what I would consider a good, well-rounded life. You're selfish with your time. You're selfish with your thoughts. You don't have to grow up. All you're concerned with is scoring points." Jenner has learned that perfection comes in many forms. He has learned that a private mastery is just as satisfying as a public one. He has learned that a curse isn't a curse if it's a choice. And he has learned that there may be no greater love a father can give his children than to accept that his life really didn't begin until theirs did. On that photograph on his apartment wall — the first one, the black-and-white one, the losing one — Jenner had printed a quote. He had found it in a book by Roger Bannister, the first man to break the four-minute mile.

That feat was considered impossible: If a man ran that fast, for that long, his heart might explode. Today, Jenner closes his eyes and recites the quote that he read every night, all those years ago. He doesn't get the words exactly right, but he gets them mostly right. In the book, this is how they read: Only in something like running can finality be achieved, the sort of finality that is almost perfection. But it is not the kind of perfection that leaves you with nothing to live for. You are not your own executioner, because sport is not the main aim in life. Yet to achieve perfection in one thing, however small, makes it possible to face uncertainty in the more difficult problems in life. "I love that," Jenner says, his eyes opening again. The part he left out was the part about not being his own executioner. More from Esquire: Bruce Jenner, Kim Kardashian - The Olympic-champ-turned-reality-star Bruce Jenner embarks on a new public path as Caitlyn - Pictures - CBS News Next Bruce Jenner to Caitlyn Jenner Bruce Jenner has stayed in the spotlight ever since his rise to fame at the 1976 Summer Olympics.

After much recent speculation, Jenner, 65, stated publicly for the first time in an interview with Diane Sawyer on "20/20" April 24, 2015 that he's "always been very confused with my gender identity," and "God gave me the soul of a female". The Olympic-champ-turned-reality-star embarked on a new public path as Caitlyn Jenner with the first photo shoot and exclusive interview in the July issue of Vanity Fair magazine. On July 15, 2015, Jenner accepted the Arthur Ashe Courage Award at the ESPYs. Jenner's life in pictures... Credit: Tony Duffy/Allsport/Getty Images, Annie Leibovitz/Vanity Fair Caitlyn Jenner Caitlyn Jenner speaks at the Point Foundation's "Voices on Point" Gala in Los Angeles, Oct. 3, 2015. Credit: Phil McCarten/Reuters Caitlyn Jenner's ESPY Award Caitlyn Jenner makes her first major public appearance as she accepts ESPN's 2015 Arthur Ashe Courage Award from professional soccer player Abby Wambach in Los Angeles, July 15, 2015.

Credit: Kevin Winter/Getty Images Caitlyn Jenner's ESPY Award ESPY Award honoree Caitlyn Jenner accepts the Arthur Ashe Courage Award onstage during The 2015 ESPYS at Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles, July 15, 2015. Credit: Kevin Winter/Getty Images Caitlyn Jenner's ESPY Award 2015 Arthur Ashe Courage Award honoree Caitlyn Jenner makes an emotional plea for "accepting people for who they are," onstage in Los Angeles, July 15, 2015. Credit: Kevin Winter/Getty Images Caitlyn Jenner's ESPY Award Honoree Caitlyn Jenner accepts the Arthur Ashe Award For Courage onstage during The 2015 ESPYS in Los Angeles, July 15, 2015. Wearing an ivory Atelier Versace dress, Jenner, in a nod to the fashion police, said, "Please be kind to me. I'm new at this." The Versace dress was topped off by Beladora emerald, pearl and diamond earrings and cuff.

Credit: Kevin Winter/Getty Images Introducing Caitlyn Jenner Caitlyn Jenner, formerly known as Bruce Jenner, appears in the first post-transition cover photo for Vanity Fair magazine by photographer Annie Liebovitz. Vanity Fair landed the exclusive first photo shoot and interview since Jenner announced transitioning on air with Diane Sawyer in April. The issue is expected to hit stands June 9, 2015. Credit: Annie Leibovitz/Vanity Fair Introducing Caitlyn Jenner A screen grab of behind the scenes video of Caitlyn Jenner's photo shoot with Annie Leibovitz for Vanity Fair's July 2015 cover story. Credit: Barbara Leibovitz/Vanity Fair "I am Cait" A screen grab from the promo aired June 3, 2015 for Caitlyn Jenner's E! docu-series, "I am Cait." The promo shows Jenner saying, "You start learning kind of the pressure women are under all the time about their appearance." The eight-part, one-hour documentary series begins airing July 26, 2015. At the end of the promo video Jenner says, "Put it this way, I'm the new normal." Credit: E!

Bruce Jenner through the years Jenner's life in pictures: Bruce Jenner raises his arms in victory after winning the Drake Relays decathlon in Des Moines, Iowa, April 22, 1976. Jenner, then affiliated with the San Jose Stars, tallied 8,250 points in the two-day, 10-event competition, bettering the relays record he set the previous year with 8,138 points. Credit: AP Olympian Bruce Jenner Bruce Jenner lets go of the shot put while competing in the Olympic decathlon competition, July 29, 1976. Jenner won the U.S. Olympic gold medal in the decathlon earning that title of "World's Greatest Athlete". Credit: AP Bruce Jenner throws the javelin in the Olympic decathlon competition in Montreal, July 30, 1976. Credit: AP Bruce Jenner - Olympian Bruce Jenner celebrates during his record setting performance in the decathlon in the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada.

Credit: Tony Duffy/Allsport/Getty Images Bruce Jenner - Olympian USA's Bruce Jenner (C) raises his arms in victory on the podium after he was awarded the olympic gold medal for the men's decathlon competition, next to West German silver medalist Guido Kratschmer (L) and USSR's bronze medalist Nikolay Avilov, July 30, 1976 in Montreal. Credit: AFP/Getty Images Bruce Jenner, New York Ethel Kennedy widow of Robert F. Kennedy, second from right, greets Bruce Jenner, center, gold, medal winner in the Decathlon events at the Montreal Olympics, and his wife, Chrystie, left, at a cocktail party in New York City, August 27, 1976. New York Gov. Hugh Carey is at right. Credit: Ron Frehm/AP Bruce and Chrystie Jenner Bruce Jenner and wife Chrystie Scott pose during the ABC Affiliate Banquet on May 12, 1977, at Century Plaza Hotel in New York. They were married from 1972-1981 and have two children together, Burt and Cassandra ("Casey").

Credit: Ron Galella/WireImage/Getty Images Male athlete of the year Bruce Jenner, the 1976 Olympic decathlon champion, sits at his Malibu, California, home on Jan. 6, 1977, talking about his selection as male athlete of the year. The selection was made by a nationwide panel of sports writers and broadcasters. Tony Dorsett of Pittsburgh was runner up. Credit: George Brich/AP Jenner made a Wheaties commercial in 1978. Credit: General Mills Bruce Jenner at Playboy Mansion Hugh Hefner hosts his guest Bruce Jenner at the Playboy Mansion in May 1979 in Los Angeles. Credit: Frank Edwards/Fotos International/Getty Images Bruce and Chrystie Jenner Chrystie Scott and Bruce Jenner attend the 8th Annual RFK Pro Celebrity Tennis Tournament, Aug. 25, 1979. Credit: Ron Galella/WireImage/Getty Images Bruce Jenner, Linda Thompson Bruce Jenner and actress Linda Thompson attend the premiere party for "Can't Stop The Music" in New York, on June 19, 1980.

The two married in 1981 and would have two sons, Brody and Brandon, before divorcing in 1986. Credit: Ron Galella, Ltd./WireImage/Getty Images Olympic gold medalist Olympic gold medalist Bruce Jenner in 1988. Credit: AP Bruce Jenner, Kris Kardashian Kris Jenner and Bruce Jenner pose for a portrait in 1991 in Los Angeles. He and Kris, ex-wife of super-lawyer Robert Kardashian, married in April that year after dating for 5 months. They have two children together, Kendall and Kylie. She also has four children -- Kourtney, Kim, Khloe and Rob -- from her marriage to Kardashian. Jenner said that when they first met, he told Kris that he had taken hormones to transition back in the 80s.

In the Vanity Fair interview published online June 2, 2015, Jenner described being a "good solid B cup" when the two met though Kris contends that she saw this as just "a little bit of a man boob situation." It's unclear how much Kris knew of Jenner's transition before their marriage ended in 2014, over "irreconcilable differences", and leading up Jenner's public announcement in April 2015 in the Diane Sawyer interview. Credit: Donaldson Collection/Getty Images The Kardashians A Kardashian-Jenner family portrait taken in 1991 in Los Angeles. Top row, Brandon Jenner and Burton Jenner; Middle row: Brody Jenner, Kourtney Kardashian, Bruce Jenner, Kris Jenner, Cassandra Jenner and Kim Kardashian; Bottom row: Robert Kardashian Jr. and Khloe Kardashian. Bruce and Kris Jenner announced their separation in October 2013, and their divorce was finalized the following year. Credit: Maureen Donaldson/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images Bruce, Kris and family Bruce Jenner steps out with wife Kris and stepchildren Khloe, Kourtney, Rob and Kim Kardashian at an event in Los Angeles in 1995.

Credit: Ron Galella, Ltd./WireImage/Getty Bruce and Kris Jenner Bruce Jenner and his wife, Kris Jenner, answer reporters' questions at the Criminal Courts Building as they arrive for closing arguments in the O.J. Simpson double-murder trial in Los Angeles in 1995. Credit: Nick Ut/AP Bruce Jenner and family Bruce and Kris Jenner, with daughters Kendall and Kylie Jenner, attend the "Lilo & Stitch" premiere, June 16, 2002. Credit: Jim Smeal/WireImage/Getty Squaw Valley Bruce Jenner attends the 2003 Celebrity Sports Invitational Ski Event in Squaw Valley, Jan. 11, 2013. Credit: Tim Jackson/WireImage for InStyle Magazine Bruce Jenner, Atlanta Olympics Former Olympians, from left, Mark Spitz, Nadia Comaneci and Bruce Jenner look on at Coca-Cola headquarters as the Olympic torch is brought in to be lit at the cauldron in Atlanta, June 18, 2004. Credit: Tami Chappell/Reuters Bruce Jenner, Kim Kardashian Bruce Jenner, U.S.

Olympic gold medal winner in the decathlon in 1976, arrives with his step-daughter, Kim Kardashian, at the 2006 ESPY Awards at Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California, July 12, 2006. Credit: Robert Galbraith/Reuters Jenner - "Skating with Celebrities" Bruce Jenner partnered with pro skater Tai Babilonia for a season of "Skating With Celebrities" in 2006. Credit: FOX/FilmMagic Bruce Jenner and son Brandon Bruce Jenner and son Brandon Jenner attend the "Flyboys" Los Angeles screening in Beverly Hills, California, Sept. 20, 2006. Credit: Michael Tran/FilmMagic Bruce Jenner, Arnold Schwarzenegger California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, left, mingles with 1976 U.S. Olympic gold medalist Bruce Jenner at a news conference to voice support for Los Angeles' bid to host the 2016 Olympic Games, at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, Jan. 19, 2007.

Credit: Chris Pizzello/Reuters Bruce Jenner is spotted walking in Malibu, California, July 5, 2009. Credit: David Aguilera/BuzzFoto.com Kardashian Charity Knock Out From left, Bruce Jenner, Robert Kardashian and Kris Jenner attend the Kardashian Charity Knock Out at the Commerce Casino on Nov. 3, 2009, in Los Angeles. In a Vanity Fair interview, published online June 2, 2015, Kris said, their marriage ended abruptly, when her former husband "just decided, 'I'm done.'" Credit: Noel Vasquez/Getty Images Burce Jenner, Vanity Fair party Olympic Gold medalist and television personality Bruce Jenner arrives for the IZOD Vanity Fair Party in Indianapolis, May 29, 2010. Credit: Jeff Roberson/AP Bruce Jenner, Kris Kardashian Bruce Jenner, Kris Kardashian arrive for the City of Hope honoring Shelli And Irving Azoff with the 2011 Spirit of Life award at Universal Studios Hollywood in Universal City, California, May 7, 2011.

Kris is quoted in the June 2015 Vanity Fair article saying, "He was married to me, and he wasn't who he wanted to be so he was miserable." Caitlyn, formerly Bruce, believes that "20 percent was gender and 80 percent was the way I was treated" in describing why their marriage ended formally in 2014. Credit: John Sciulli/Getty Images For City of Hope Basketball game Former Olympic athlete Bruce Jenner sits with stitches and a scar on his face as he attends the NBA basketball game between the Dallas Mavericks and Los Angeles Lakers in Los Angeles, Jan. 16, 2012. Credit: Danny Moloshok/AP Bruce Jenner, celebrity golf classic Bruce Jenner attends the 5th Annual George Lopez Celebrity Golf Classic at Lakeside Golf Club in Toluca Lake, California, May 7, 2012. Credit: Michael Buckner/Getty Images Bruce Jenner, Lamar Odom Former U.S. Olympian Bruce Jenner and NBA player Lamar Odom arrive at the 2012 ESPY Awards at Nokia Theatre L.A. Live in Los Angeles, California, July 11, 2012.

Credit: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images Bruce Jenner is seen in Los Angeles, March 21, 2013. Credit: JB Lacroix/WireImage/Getty Bruce Jener, Kathy Lee Gifford Bruce Jenner, left, and Kathie Lee Gifford attend the Annual Charity Day Hosted By Cantor Fitzgerald And BGC at the Cantor Fitzgerald Office in New York, Sept. 11, 2013. Credit: Mike McGregor/Getty Images for Cantor Fitzgerald Television personality Bruce Jenner Television personality Bruce Jenner attends the 13th annual Michael Jordan Celebrity Invitational gala at the ARIA Resort & Casino at CityCenter in Las Vegas, Nevada, April 4, 2014. Credit: Ethan Miller/Getty Images Kim Kardashian's wedding Ahead of daughter-in-law Kim Kardashian's wedding, Bruce Jenner sported a pony tail in Paris at the Four Seasons George V hotel, May 24, 2014.

Credit: Marc Piasecki/GC Images Bruce Jenner, Las Vegas Television personality Bruce Jenner (C) with Charleene O'Connor and Laura Mentekidis attend the 13th annual Michael Jordan Celebrity Invitational gala at the ARIA Resort & Casino at CityCenter in Las Vegas, Nevada, April 4, 2014. Credit: Ethan Miller/Getty Images for Michael Jordan Celebrity Invitational Bruce Jenner, Kim Kardashian Kim Kardashian and Bruce Jenner are spotted heading back to their cars after having lunch in West Hollywood, California, while filming for their reality show "Keeping Up With The Kardashians" on Oct. 21, 2014.

Credit: Quarterflash/Vantage News Bruce Jenner, Diane Sawyer Bruce Jenner sits down with Diane Sawyer for an interview airing April 24, 2015, on "20/20." After many months of public speculation about his physical changes, Jenner told Sawyer he self-identifies as "her," and that "for all intents and purposes, I am a woman." Credit: ABC Bruce Jenner became an Olympic icon exactly 39 years ago comment Before we were introduced to Caitlyn Jenner, Bruce Jenner captured the hearts of America exactly 39 years ago Thursday by winning the gold medal in the men's decathlon at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. Jenner became an instant celebrity and was proclaimed "the world's greatest athlete." Not only was it a significant athletic achievement for the country in its bicentennial year, but the fact Jenner was able to dethrone Soviet decathlete Mykola Avilov, who had won gold in 1972 during the height of the Cold War, made it even more memorable.

Most people under the age of 40 know Jenner best as a reality television star from "Keeping Up with the Kardashians" and most recently "I Am Cait," but the gold medal performance on July 30, 1976, remains the moment Jenner became an indelible part of American history. For some, it's a fading memory about a person whose life since has been rebooted. To celebrate the anniversary, here are five things you might not know -- or remember -- about Jenner's Olympic triumph nearly two decades ago. How Jenner's iconic flag wave came to be Bruce Jenner punctuated his Olympic decathlon victory by waving an American flag. In 1976, that wasn't the common practice it is today. AP Images/Sal Veder The signature moment of Jenner's historic accomplishment didn't come during any of the ten track and field events of the competition. It came right after he finished second in the 1,500-meter run, the final event of the decathlon, with the gold medal clinched. As Jenner was still gathering himself, a fan ran onto the field and handed Jenner a small American flag on a stick before being escorted away by security guards.

"What am I going to do with this?" Jenner later said he thought to himself. "I can't put it down, it would look unpatriotic. Creating a spectacle was the last thing I would have done. It just wasn't my style." So Jenner slowly lifted the flag in the air and waved it emphatically as the crowd roared, creating one of the most indelible images in the history of the Games. Now it's almost hard to image a gold medal moment at the Olympics not ending with an athlete waving or draped in his or her country's flag. "That moment changed the Games," Jenner would later say. "I had the flag in my hand and it really started something." Jenner competed in the 1972 Olympics -- and finished 10th The seeds for Jenner's record-breaking performance in 1976 were planted four years earlier in Munich. Jenner had surprisingly qualified for the 1972 Olympics despite having competed in the decathlon for only two years. He wasn't expected to win, but he set a personal goal of finishing in the top ten and was happy when he finished 10th.

But Jenner's outlook on the decathlon and life changed after he watched Avilov win gold for the Soviet Union. "For the first time, I knew what I wanted out of life and that was it, and this guy has it," Jenner said. "I literally started training that night in midnight, running through the streets of Munich, Germany, training for the Games. I trained that day on through the 1976 Games, 6-8 hours a day, every day, 365 days a year." By 1975, Jenner was the No. 1 decathlete in the world after setting a record of 8,524 points at a meet in Eugene, Oregon, and improving on that record with 8,538 points at the Olympic trials. His goal in Montreal was not only to win the gold, but break the 8,600-point barrier. The Olympic record set by Avilov four years earlier was 8,466 points.

Jenner trailed after the first day of the decathlon Despite three personal bests on the first day of the decathlon at the 1976 Games, Jenner went to bed that night 35 points behind the leader, Guido Kratschmer of West Germany. Jenner, however, knew he had won the gold when he left the Olympic Stadium that night. "The second day has all my good events," Jenner told ABC after the first day. "If everything works out all right, we should be ahead after it's all over." In the decathlon, points are earned based off the performance in each event, not on the position finished. Jenner was strong as expected in discus, pole vault and javelin on the second day, all but clinching the gold medal heading into the final event, the 1,500-meter run. But he wasn't content with that. After falling well behind event favorite Leonid Litvinenko of the Soviet Union, Jenner made a strong surge to close the gap.

He couldn't catch Litvinenko, but his personal-best time of 4:12.61 put an exclamation point on his performance and pushed his point total to a record 8,618. Jenner knew it would be his final competition Jenner was joined on the medal stand by Guido Kratschmer, left, and Mykola Avilov. AP Photo When it was over, Jenner knew he would never compete again. That was the plan all along. In fact, he left his vaulting poles in the stadium. He would never need them again. He had a feeling if he won the gold medal, he would be set for life in the aftermath. "In 1972, I made the decision that I would go four years and totally dedicate myself to what I was doing, and then I would move on after it was over with," Jenner said. "I went into that competition knowing that would be the last time I would ever do this." Jenner knew he would get endorsement deals after winning gold, but even he later admitted he never expected to become an overnight celebrity the way he did. He simply figured he wouldn't have to sell insurance again.

He would not only become the face of Wheaties, but a spokesperson for Tropicana, Minolta and Buster Brown shoes while also gracing the cover of numerous magazines, from GQ to Sports Illustrated. "After the Games were over," Jenner said, "I happened to be the right guy, at that right place, at that right time." Avilov and Jenner were reunited last year Avilov, the man who inspired Jenner to chase Olympic glory, finished third in 1976, behind Jenner and Kratschmer. Avilov retired four years later and went on to coach in Iraq, Ukraine, China, Egypt and Seychelles. Jenner and Avilov reunited and took a picture at a track and field convention last year, and Jenner smiled when recalling the meeting during the interview in April with ABC's Diane Sawyer in which he announced, "For all intents and purposes, I am a woman." "I ran into [Avilov] last year," Jenner said. "I love the guy, but he was terribly overweight and terribly out of shape.

And I'm thinking to myself, I've won that battle too!" Bruce Jenner: Olympic gold medalist Keeping Up With the Kardashians star 2 About Bruce Jenner Bruce Jenner might be best known on this side of the pond as Kris Jenner's ex-husband and the stepfather of the Kardashian clan, but in his native America, he was a bona fide national hero thanks to his sporting achievements. After being forced to quit a college football scholarship because of injury, he switched to decathlon. At the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada, he won the gold medal in the decathlon event, setting a new world record. As a result, he was inducted into the Olympic Hall of Fame in 1986. After retiring from athletics, Bruce decided to pursue a television career and had some success with made-for-TV movies and as a semi-regular cast member on the police series 'CHiPs' for six episodes. He has since appeared in several US reality shows including 'I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!' and 'The Apprentice'. He also starred in episodes of 'Murder, She Wrote' and 'Family Guy'. Since late 2007, he has appeared in the hit E!

reality series 'Keeping Up With The Kardashians' along with wife Kris Jenner, stepdaughters Kourtney, Kim, Khloé, and stepson Rob (from Kris' marriage to attorney Robert Kardashian), and daughters Kylie and Kendall. FOLLOW HUFFPOST Please check the checkbox to indicate your consent HuffPost Daily Brief Get top stories and blog posts emailed to me each day.. HuffPost

Question: What Olympic event was won by Kim Kardashian's step-father, Bruce Jenner?
Answer: Decathlon