Bruce Jenner
The Arthur Ashe Courage Award, presented to Caitlyn Jenner, stands as one of several honors that have marked her long and varied public life.
Born on October 28, 1949, in Mount Kisco, Jenner attended Newtown High School before going on to study at Graceland University. Her athletic ability developed during those years, and she went on to compete as a decathlete at the Olympic level, winning a gold medal. That achievement brought her the James E. Sullivan Award and the Associated Press Athlete of the Year award. In the years that followed, Jenner built a career extending well beyond athletics, working as a television actor, film producer, sports commentator, motivational speaker, model, and businessperson. She also competed in automobile racing and played basketball. A trans woman and United States citizen, Jenner has remained a presence across multiple professional fields, including that of media personality.
The three awards she received — the Olympic gold medal, the James E. Sullivan Award, and the Associated Press Athlete of the Year award — mark the competitive foundation on which her public life was first established, while the Arthur Ashe Courage Award reflects a later chapter in a career that has shifted considerably across decades.
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I didn’t only have a perceptual problem, I was also so nervous and so upset. The process just didn’t work. I lost enthusiasm for school and I flunked second grade. The teachers said I was lazy.
It caused more problems as a young kid, because the simple process of perceiving words on a piece of paper was hard for me. Many people think dyslexic people see things backwards. They don’t see things backwards.
Our mission for younger people is to do our best to make exercise cool, hip – the thing to do.
The truth is everybody does it from time to time. People dial telephone numbers and they get a wrong number only to find that they’ve read the last two digits backwards. Everybody does it, but dyslexics have this tendency to a higher degree.