Although Jim Thorpe is no longer alive, his legacy was honored with the Presidential Medal of Freedom ... of James Francis Thorpe. Thorpe won gold in the 1912 Olympics, making him the first ...

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 ...

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 ...

Most famously, this meant that Jim Thorpe, who won gold medals in the 1912 Olympic decathlon and pentathlon, was stripped of his medals for making money while playing semipro baseball a year earlier.

Jim Thorpe and Phil Donahue ... his admiration for Thorpe — The first Native American to win an Olympic Gold Medal. “He set world records in the Decathlon, was a professional football ...

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 all-round ... Thorpe's records were eliminated from the books, his gold medals taken away and he died a miserable death as an alcoholic in a Californian ...

Jim Thorpe's story- he was stripped of his medals but they were reinstated 75 ... Athletes who missed out on certain gold consider whether the protest was worth it.

When an American Indian named Jim Thorpe won the gold medal in the decathlon at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, legend has it that King Gustav V of Sweden presented him the medal and said ...

Jim Thorpe was arguably the greatest all-round ... Thorpe's records were eliminated from the books, his gold medals taken away and he died a miserable death as an alcoholic in a Californian ...