The U.S. Olympic Committee would consider to make adjustment in the medal records should Caitlyn Jenner request her name be changed.
- Jun 8, 2015
AceShowbiz - U.S. Olympic Committee is team Caitlyn Jenner despite petition trying to strip the reality star of her hard-winning gold medal. The board says they are willing to consider changing her name from Bruce Jenner to Caitlyn in the medal records.
"We admire Caitlyn Jenner's courage and wish her all the best," USOC spokesperson Patrick Sandusky tells Us Weekly. "We would happily consider any athlete's request to have his or her personal information updated in our records."
Caitlyn won gold medal for the decathlon at the 1976 Montreal Olympics and was inducted into the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame in 1986. After her Vanity Fair debut, an online petition was launched in an effort to revoke her medal but the International Olympic Committee was unfazed. "Bruce Jenner won his gold medal in the 1976 Olympic Games and there is no issue for the IOC," the committee said back then.
Pros and cons also arise after she was picked as the recipient of Arthur Ashe Courage Award at the upcoming ESPY Awards.
