访谈录 2008-09-07&09-08 奥运之后，名利涌来（在线收听）

The average Olympian is so focused on wining an event, they are often ill-prepared for the morning after. Even Bruce Jenner knows what an Olympic hangover feels like.

“I was devastated, what will I do tomorrow, my entire life had been revolving for the last 12 years of my life around this one moment.”

The night after he won the Olympic decathlon in 1976, Jenner recalls pondering his future in a Montreal hotel suite, he had no idea.

“I didn’t have a dinner reservation that night, I mean, I, I planned for nothing after it was over with.” Adding to his sense of unease, he says, were those around him. “Honestly, some of the people who knew me before err, were very upset because they were thinking now I am a different person that they can’t really be your friend anymore, you are like on a different level. I mean, I didn’t change at all, but everybody around you does change quite a bit.”

TV offers came his way, starting with Battle of the Network Stars.

And to Bruce Jenner…

Congratulations! First time up there, right down the middle…

That's right.

I never held a microphone before, I was fortunate that I was kind of the Michael Phelps, from the games in 1976, I was kind of that front guy that they put out there.

Hi, I am Bruce Jenner, for Tropicana.

His Olympic profile helped Jenner do everything from endorsements to the feature film Can’t Stop the Music.

So let’s get go, I got a place to hit this afternoon right around here.

Why can't see ya?

With the village people

Why can't see ya?"

Now just another day, baby, it’s another day, oh, Michelle, let's go

Now Jenner is a regality TV fixture on Keeping Up With the Kardashian,  stepfather to a clan that includes one woman boutiquier Kim  Kardashian. Yet it was a contract with Wheaties, that changed his life forever just three months after winning the gold.

The guy goes, congratulations, you are a millionaire.

I was…me? I was living on 10,000 dollars a year, okay, I was living on 145 dollars-a-month apartment, okay, driving a 63-Volkswagen bug, I paid 175 dollars for it, okay, and this guy was like, um, give me that paper.