Bruce Jenner broke the decathlon world record en route to winning the 1976 Olympic gold medal in Montreal.
But struggling with confusion over gender identity, Jenner felt conflicted by the newfound title of “world’s greatest athlete.”
Jenner, who is now known as Caitlyn after announcing in 2015 that she was transitioning to living as a woman, revealed her mindset the morning after the Olympic triumph in the following excerpt from her best-selling memoir, “The Secrets of My Life,” which is available now:
I am looking in the mirror in a suite of the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal the morning after my Olympic win.