Immediately after for Olympic gold medalist Bruce Jenner announced to Diane Sawyer and 17 million television viewers that he is now a woman, East German Olympic officials demanded her medals be stripped and given to the runner-ups.
Jenner won the decathlon gold medal at the 1976 Montreal Summer Olympics. This accomplishment catapulted the athlete to American stardom including being the first man to grace the cover of the Wheaties cereal box….