Big Jim Thorpe, famed American athlete and former U.S. Olympic great, center, sets a fast pace for some girls during a "junior olympics" event on Chicago's south side June 6, 1948 sponsored by a V ...

VIDEO ABOVE | Jim Thorpe’s Presidential Medal of Freedom on display at ... By 1912, he competed in the Olympics, winning gold medals in the pentathlon and the decathlon. However, those medals were ...

FILE - Jim Thorpe, the 61-year-old former Olympic athlete, gives a drop kicking exhibition at half-time of the Israeli-U.S. international soccer match at the Polo Grounds in New York City on Sept ...

Thorpe, born in Indian Territory in 1887, dominated multiple sports at the highest levels, winning gold medals in track and field at the 1912 Olympics, playing professional football, baseball, and ...

Legendary Native American athlete Jim Thorpe will be the focus of “The Olympics,” program Saturday, Feb. 22 at the Betty Strong Encounter Center.

LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — 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 ...