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

HISTORY's latest sports documentary focuses on Jim Thorpe, who was voted the greatest athlete of the first half-century in 1950 ahead of Babe Ruth, Jack Dempsey and others.

A new TV series titled "THORPE" will dramatize the life of legendary Native American athlete Jim Thorpe, with support from ...

LAUSANNE, Switzerland — 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 ...

LeBron James recently acknowledged Jim Thorpe, a legendary athlete, on Instagram. History TV is releasing "Jim Thorpe: Lit by Lightning," a documentary about him. The film explores Thorpe's life as a ...

He went on to represent the United States at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics, winning gold medals in the decathlon and pentathlon. Thorpe went on to play professional football, baseball and basketball.

The I.O.C. agreed to return Thorpe’s medals in 1982, almost 30 years after his death, and last year President Joseph R. Biden Jr. awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, which was ...

SIOUX CITY | The Betty Strong Encounter Center will present a program on “Olympic Games” history with the focus on the renowned Jim Thorpe at 2 p.m. Saturday. Admission is ...

DAPHNE, Ala. (WALA) - The family of renowned Native American athlete and Olympic medalist Jim Thorpe visited the United States Sports University in Daphne Tuesday. Jim Thorpe is remembered by his ...