Caitlyn Marie Jenner (born William Bruce Jenner; October 28, 1949) is an American television personality and retired Olympic gold medal–winning decathlete.
Jenner played college football for the Graceland Yellowjackets before incurring a knee injury that required surgery. Convinced by Olympic decathlete Jack Parker's coach, L. D. Weldon, to try the decathlon, Jenner won the men's decathlon event at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, setting a third successive world record and gaining fame as "an all-American hero".
Given the unofficial title of "world's greatest athlete", Jenner established a career in television, film, writing, auto racing, business, and as a Playgirl cover model.
Over the weekend as some in Hollywood were focused on the Oscars, reality TV star turned California gubernatorial candidate Caitlyn Jenner made what Politico in its Monday morning Political Playbook email called “her first major campaign gaffe.”Jenner on Saturday took to Twitter to express outrage over the news in a San Francisco Chronicle article about a man arrested for murder in the death of a child he’d been watching.
The man had reportedly been arrested twice before for felony domestic violence but not charged because the women he allegedly assaulted did not cooperate.
According to the Chronicle, the San Francisco District Attorney’s office said there was nothing it could do. But Kathy Black, who runs a shelter in city for domestic
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