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Caitlyn Jenner wears Olympic gold medal on SI cover

Caitlyn Jenner

FILE - In this Wednesday, July 15, 2015 file photo, Caitlyn Jenner accepts the Arthur Ashe award for courage at the ESPY Awards at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. Sheriff’s investigators plan to recommend prosecutors file a vehicular manslaughter charge against Jenner for her role in a fatal car crash on the Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu last February. Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department spokeswoman Nicole Nishida says investigators found that Jenner was driving “unsafe for the prevailing road conditions” because her SUV rear-ended a Lexus, pushing it into oncoming traffic. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP,File)

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Caitlyn Jenner posed on the cover of this week’s Sports Illustrated wearing her decathlon gold medal won at the 1976 Olympics.

Of course, Jenner’s life has changed dramatically since those two days in Montreal 40 years ago.

“What did I do for the world in 1976, besides maybe getting a few people to exercise a little bit?” Jenner said in the SI cover story. “I didn’t make a difference in the world.”

She views the medal, which she has never put on display, and the achievement much differently now.

“I loved Bruce,” Jenner said, according to the magazine. “I still love him today. I like what he did and the way he set an example for hard work and dedication. I’m proud of that part of my life. But this woman was living inside me, all my life, and it reached the point where I had to let her live and put Bruce inside. And I am happier, these last 12 months, than I’ve ever been in my life.”