Olympic Decathlon
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| Initial release date | 1980 |
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| Genres | Sports Game |
| Platforms | Apple II, IBM Personal Computer, TRS-80 |
| Publishers | Microsoft Corporation |
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| ID | 2191855 |
About Olympic Decathlon
Olympic Decathlon is a sports game written by Timothy W. Smith for the TRS-80 and published in 1980 by Microsoft. In the game, the player competes in ten track and field events. The gold medalist for decathlon in the Montreal 1976 Summer Olympics, Bruce Jenner, is a character. It was ported to the Apple II in 1981.
Caitlyn Jenner talks transitioning and winning Olympic gold
Caitlyn Jenner is "the great double", she's an Olympic Decathlon champion and Glamour's woman of the year.
Born Bruce Jenner she struggled with gender dysphoria - a mismatch between someone's biological sex and their gender identity.
Her greatest sporting moment came at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal where she saw off the Soviet challenge at The Height of the Cold War to win Decathlon gold, smashing the World Record in The Process .
Caitlyn spoke to Simon Mundie from Don't Tell Me The Score about taking lessons from games into transitioning and how it affected her.
Listen to the on BBC Sounds .
Source of news: bbc.com
