** FILE ** Germany's pole-vaulter Yvonne Buschbaum competes in the pole vault at the Summer Olympics, Sept. 25, 2000, at Olympic Stadium in Sydney. Buschbaum announced her retirement Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2007 saying she had long felt as if she were "in the wrong body" and planned hormone treatment. Buschbaum, 27, finished third at the European Championships in 1998 and 2002. "I feel as if I am a man and have to live my life in the body of a woman," Buschbaum said in a statement on her Web site announcing her retirement. (AP Photo/Thomas Kienzle)