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 in a U.S. meet. Thorpe was the first Native American to win a gold medal for the United States (pentathalon and ...

He won silver at the 1912 Olympics in the 16-pound hammer throw and prior to the games defeated the legendary Native American (Sac and Fox Nation) and Olympic medalist, Jim Thorpe in a U.S. meet.

USA’s James Connolly, the winner of the triple jump, was the first Olympic athletics gold medallist of the modern era ... The pentathlon and decathlon are both won by Jim Thorpe (USA) with world ...

Olympic gold medals primarily comprise silver with just a small percentage of gold. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has developed specific rules around the design and production of Olympic ...

On a busy day with eight finals after several events were rescheduled to avoid poor weather forecast for the weekend, New Zealander Sadowski-Synnott added a third world gold medal to the Olympic ...

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Norway’s Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo completed an unprecedented sweep of all six cross-country skiing gold medals at the World Championships, capping it in Saturday’s grueling 50km race in front of tens ...