Caitlyn Jenner will turn heads at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games but not in the same manner she did at the 1976 event.
Jenner will appear naked covered with just the United States flag and her Olympic gold medal this summer on the cover of Sports Illustrated, US Weekly’s Dana Rose Falcone reported Wednesday, citing a source. The S.I. cover will mark the first time Jenner, who transitioned from her former identity as Bruce Jenner, will publicly appear as a woman with the gold medal she won in the decathlon as a man.
“She’s excited about that,” the source told US Weekly.
Jenner, 66, announced her gender-identity change last year and has since become one of the most prominent transgender people in the country.
ESPN already honored her with the Ashe Courage Award at last year’s ESPYs.
Sports Illustrated will put Jenner on the cover, as it did 40 years ago, but apparently is doing so on her terms.
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