Caitlyn Jenner Stuns in Red Pantsuit and Lacy Bra at Charity Event, Reunites With Another Groundbreaking Olympian - Caitlyn Jenner may accept rocked the sports apple by advancing out as transgender beforehand this year, but addition Olympian had fabricated above after-effects decades afore with a then-shocking announcement. The two champs were reunited for the aboriginal time back Jenner's alteration on Saturday night at a alms event.
Five-time Olympic advocate Greg Louganis, who is still the almanac holder for civic titles in belvedere diving, came out as gay in 1988 in a acknowledged book, Breaking the Surface, and appear in 1995 during an Oprah Winfrey account that he is HIV positive.
While he and Jenner aboriginal met in Montreal at the 1976 Olympics, if Louganis was 16 and Jenner won the gold for the decathlon, he hadn’t official been reintroduced to Jenner back she became Caitlyn.
"We remained accompany and catholic calm on speaking tours for the next two decades," Louganis, now 55, told the admirers at the Point Foundation's Los Angeles gala. "The endure time we saw anniversary added was about 18 months ago in Malibu. But it wasn't until tonight that I had the amusement of affair the absurd woman she is today -- and she's just as strong, courageous, tenacious, acute and admirable as ever."
At alone her additional accessible accent back getting accustomed at the ESPY awards in July, 65-year-old absoluteness brilliant -- who was decked out in a beauteous red pantsuit that teased a delicate red bra beneath -- joked that she didn't accept to do abundant to acquire the room's applause.
"A continuing acclaim for advancing out actuality and not benumbed in heels!” she said. "I've consistently been affectionate of tall, but I absolved out actuality today, and I had to accession the mic up even higher. Girls, it is all about the shoes, isn't it?"
Then she batten added actively about the appulse Louganis had on adolescent LGBT athletes, including Jenner herself.
"I've consistently lived my absolute activity with things central me that I could never accurate to added people, except a actual few people," Jenner said. "And so abounding times with Greg, I kept cerebration to myself, he would be actual understanding, he would be a abundant being to allocution to about some of my issues and just never had the befalling -- until tonight."
She added, "Isn't it just admirable to reside your activity authentically?"
Jenner said actualization at the Point Foundation event, area she accustomed two transgender TV producers, Rhys Enrst and Zach Zyskowski, who had ahead accustomed academy scholarships from the organization, was a far added adequate acquaintance than her diffuse accepting accent at the ESPYs in July.
"This is a actual altered group," she said. "When I did that, candidly I had to annulment myself from area I was. I'd been at the ESPY Awards many, abounding times. I couldn't put it in my head. I'm continuing up there, in my altogether accomplished Donatella Versace gown, and I'm searching down at LeBron James, Brett Favre, and I'm thinking, 'I can't go there.' I just accept to stick to my speech, get it out. Somehow, I attending at this audience, and I just don't get that activity that it's that alarming to me."
After the event, Jenner aggregate a photo of herself with Ernst and Zyskowski, bombastic that it was her "privilege to present" them with the Horizon Award at the gala.
Five-time Olympic advocate Greg Louganis, who is still the almanac holder for civic titles in belvedere diving, came out as gay in 1988 in a acknowledged book, Breaking the Surface, and appear in 1995 during an Oprah Winfrey account that he is HIV positive.While he and Jenner aboriginal met in Montreal at the 1976 Olympics, if Louganis was 16 and Jenner won the gold for the decathlon, he hadn’t official been reintroduced to Jenner back she became Caitlyn.
"We remained accompany and catholic calm on speaking tours for the next two decades," Louganis, now 55, told the admirers at the Point Foundation's Los Angeles gala. "The endure time we saw anniversary added was about 18 months ago in Malibu. But it wasn't until tonight that I had the amusement of affair the absurd woman she is today -- and she's just as strong, courageous, tenacious, acute and admirable as ever."
At alone her additional accessible accent back getting accustomed at the ESPY awards in July, 65-year-old absoluteness brilliant -- who was decked out in a beauteous red pantsuit that teased a delicate red bra beneath -- joked that she didn't accept to do abundant to acquire the room's applause.
"A continuing acclaim for advancing out actuality and not benumbed in heels!” she said. "I've consistently been affectionate of tall, but I absolved out actuality today, and I had to accession the mic up even higher. Girls, it is all about the shoes, isn't it?"
Then she batten added actively about the appulse Louganis had on adolescent LGBT athletes, including Jenner herself.
"I've consistently lived my absolute activity with things central me that I could never accurate to added people, except a actual few people," Jenner said. "And so abounding times with Greg, I kept cerebration to myself, he would be actual understanding, he would be a abundant being to allocution to about some of my issues and just never had the befalling -- until tonight."
She added, "Isn't it just admirable to reside your activity authentically?"
Jenner said actualization at the Point Foundation event, area she accustomed two transgender TV producers, Rhys Enrst and Zach Zyskowski, who had ahead accustomed academy scholarships from the organization, was a far added adequate acquaintance than her diffuse accepting accent at the ESPYs in July.
"This is a actual altered group," she said. "When I did that, candidly I had to annulment myself from area I was. I'd been at the ESPY Awards many, abounding times. I couldn't put it in my head. I'm continuing up there, in my altogether accomplished Donatella Versace gown, and I'm searching down at LeBron James, Brett Favre, and I'm thinking, 'I can't go there.' I just accept to stick to my speech, get it out. Somehow, I attending at this audience, and I just don't get that activity that it's that alarming to me."
After the event, Jenner aggregate a photo of herself with Ernst and Zyskowski, bombastic that it was her "privilege to present" them with the Horizon Award at the gala.
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