Arguably one of the greatest athletes to have ever lived, Jim Thorpe ... s first gold medal winner. Jack Spellman was the lone wrestler who embarked on a football career after the Olympics.

If there were ever a historical exception to that, though, it was Jim Thorpe ... Athletic Union stripped Thorpe of his gold ...

Jim Thorpe won two gold medals at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics wearing different shoes and socks The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has reinstated Jim Thorpe as the winner of the Stockholm ...

The exact date of Jim Thorpe’s birth is unknown, but it is generally believed that the first Native American to win an Olympic gold medal for the United States—regarded by many as one of the ...

Until 1986, the IOC’s Olympic Charter strictly stated that athletes competing in the Games must be amateurs, meaning that they couldn’t make money through sports. Most famously, this meant that Jim ...

In 1912, Jim Thorpe walked the streets of those same American cities, past crowds of people straining to see him. He had just won gold medals for both the pentathlon and the decathlon at the Olympic ...

Jim Thorpe was arguably the greatest ... The punishment was savage. Thorpe's records were eliminated from the books, his gold medals taken away and he died a miserable death as an alcoholic ...

True story of Native American Jim Thorpe, who rose from an Oklahoma reservation to become a collegiate, Olympic, and professional star. After his medals are stripped on a technicality and his ...

In 1990, Harrison was the winner of the Jim Thorpe Award, given each year to the ... Harrison’s greatest accomplishment undoubtedly came at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta. Not only did he win the ...

Jim Thorpe was arguably the greatest ... The punishment was savage. Thorpe's records were eliminated from the books, his gold medals taken away and he died a miserable death as an alcoholic ...