The 24-inch torch is the first piece of memorabilia set to be sold from Jenner’s former days as an Olympic athlete following the gold medalist’s revelation that she is transgender.
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Jenner was approached to carry the torch as part of the Los Angles Summer Olympic Games to help support Caesars Tahoe’s agenda of giving back to the local community and promoting area youth programs, said Lorsch.
The torch will be auctioned off for more than $20,000 at the Platinum Night Sports event at Heritage Auctions in Chicago. Now, Dallas-based Heritage Auctions will auction that torch Thursday. “The decathlon has lengthy been thought-about the last word athletic proving floor”. It could fetch about $50,000.
A rare pre-Civil War baseball card that was handed down as an heirloom within the family of a ballplayer for more than 150 years fetched $179,250 at an auction in Chicago on Thursday.
At age 34, eight years after he won the gold in Montreal, Jenner carried the flame across the Nevada border into California and handed it off, according to Chris Ivy, Heritage’s director of sports auctions.
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The Atlantics were a founding member of the National Association of Base Ball Players – the sport’s first organized league that held the championship from 1859 through 1861. The card was passed down to her from her mother, who inherited it from other relatives.
