--- title: Bruce Jenner and Kris Jenner Divorce Filing: His Olympic History description: Kris Jenner has filed for divorce, but Bruce has something nobody can take away canonical: https://time.com/3422094/bruce-jenner/ author: Lily Rothman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-09-23T18:45:53.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T10:21:35.762Z article:section: History og:title: Never Forget: Bruce Jenner Was "The World's Greatest Athlete" og:description: Kris Jenner has filed for divorce, but Bruce has something nobody can take away og:url: https://time.com/3422094/bruce-jenner/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt613f0da04e953480/6986a4de55a8591e59a82bfa/jenner.png?branch=production&width=1080&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Bruce Jenner og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Never Forget: Bruce Jenner Was "The World's Greatest Athlete" twitter:description: Kris Jenner has filed for divorce, but Bruce has something nobody can take away twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt613f0da04e953480/6986a4de55a8591e59a82bfa/jenner.png?branch=production&width=1080&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Bruce Jenner Was 'The World's Greatest Athlete'  by [Lily Rothman](https://time.com/author/lily-rothman/)  ## Lily Rothman Rothman is managing editor at TIME. Sep 23, 2014 6:45 PM UTC  From the Aug. 9, 1976, issue of TIME From the Aug. 9, 1976, issue of TIMETIME  by [Lily Rothman](https://time.com/author/lily-rothman/)  ## Lily Rothman Rothman is managing editor at TIME. Sep 23, 2014 6:45 PM UTC Kris Jenner, matriarch of the Kardashian clan, has [officially filed for divorce ](http://www.people.com/article/kris-jenner-files-for-divorce-bruce-jenner)from husband Bruce Jenner, after decades of marriage and about a year of [separation](http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/10/08/kris-and-bruce-jenner-are-officially-separated/). But don’t be too sad for the _Keeping Up with the Kardashians_ stars: she’s got her momager empire to keep her busy, and he’s got his Olympic memories. Though she’s a much bigger presence in the reality-television world for which they’re best known these days, we would like to take this opportunity to remind readers that he was a celebrity first — and not just a celebrity. In the Aug. 9, 1976, issue of TIME, the Olympic athlete was lauded as the greatest sportsman on Earth: --- > “” --- Jenner and his wife Chrystie separated in 1979. **_Read more about Bruce Jenner’s Olympic glory here, in TIME’s archives:_** [The Decathlon: Ten Tests for Two](http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,914363,00.html) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3422094/bruce-jenner/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3422094/bruce-jenner/"},"headline":"Bruce Jenner Was 'The World's Greatest Athlete'","datePublished":"2014-09-23T18:45:53.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T10:21:35.762Z","description":"Kris Jenner has filed for divorce, but her future ex-husband has something no one can take away","url":"https://time.com/3422094/bruce-jenner/","keywords":["Sports topic","Television","olympics","Pop Culture","People","Kardashian"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt613f0da04e953480/6986a4de55a8591e59a82bfa/jenner.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Lily Rothman","jobTitle":"Rothman is managing editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/lily-rothman/"}],"articleSection":"History","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt613f0da04e953480/6986a4de55a8591e59a82bfa/jenner.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Bruce Jenner","caption":"Bruce Jenner","creditText":"TIME","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/history/","name":"History"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3422094/bruce-jenner/","name":"Bruce Jenner Was 'The World's Greatest Athlete'"}}]}] ```