Caitlyn Jenner to feature on Sports Illustrated cover wearing only US flag

Caitlyn Jenner is to appear on the cover of Sports Illustrated, the leading American sports magazine, dressed only in an American flag and sporting her Olympic gold medal in a rare acknowledgement of her previous life as a champion male athlete.
Her appearance on the magazine’s summer cover is being timed to mark the 40th anniversary of her world record-breaking victory at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal, when she won the men’s decathlon event as Bruce Jenner.

It will be the first time Jenner, star of the television reality show Keeping Up With Kardashians, will have appeared publicly with the medal since she re-emerged last year as a woman, according to Us Weekly magazine, which broke the cover picture story.

Jenner has previously kept it hidden at the bottom of her make-up drawer, despite describing it as her “most prized possession”.