The games kick off on May 6 at the Lehighton Recreation Center, where the opening ceremony will be held, followed by corn hole, lunch, team pictures and ladder ball. Participants from Panther Valley, ...

The International Olympic Committee finally reinstated the two gold medals that Jim Thorpe won over a hundred years ago in the 1912 Olympics.

He joined Jim Thorpe as a hailed Olympic victor in 1912. Published: Feb 20, 2025, 9:27 a.m. MST. View Comments. Share. Utah native Alma W. Richards competing in the high jump, in the event he won a ...

Jim Thorpe's epic performance in the 15 events that made up the pentathlon and decathlon at the 1912 Summer Games remains the most solid reflection we have of him. Bettmann / Corbis It’s been ...

One of the great stories in American sports history - the real-life yarn of Jim Thorpe, the Indian athlete - is compellingly told in Jim Thorpe - All-American. Only a few fictional liberties have ...

Jim Thorpe has been reinstated as the sole winner of the 1912 Olympic pentathlon and decathlon in Stockholm — nearly 110 years after being stripped of those gold medals.

As the 2024 Paris Olympics continue, here's a look back at Jim Thorpe's legendary Olympics and professional sports career. Search query. Search. News. Finance. Sports.

As the 2024 Paris Olympics continue, here's a look back at Jim Thorpe's legendary Olympics and professional sports career. As the 2024 Paris Olympics continue, ...

Jim Thorpe 1912 Olympics, revisited. Thorpe was born in the late 1880s on the Sac and Fox reservation near present-day Prague, Oklahoma. As a member of the Sac and Fox Nation, ...

As the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris get underway — an event taking place 112 years after Thorpe secured his own Olympic immortality — here’s a closer look at Thorpe’s life and athletic career:. Jim ...