In this April 9, 2018 file photo, New Zealand’s Laurel Hubbard lifts in the snatch of the women’s +90kg weightlifting final at the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast, Australia. Hubbard will be the first transgender athlete to compete at the Olympics. Hubbard is among five athletes confirmed on New Zealand’s weightlifting team for the Tokyo Games.
Mark Schiefelbein, AP Photos
Years ago, Bruce Jenner was my sports hero.
The gold-medal winner in the decathlon at the 1976 Montreal Olympics didn’t just set a world record (8,616 points) in that most amazingly varied event, he symbolically whipped the Soviet Union at a time when the Cold War scared us all.