Thorpe, one of the greatest athletes in history, was stripped of his decathlon and pentathlon titles for violating rules against professionalism. By Victor Mather and Tariq Panja Jim Thorpe ...

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 ...

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 ...

This story is adapted from “Path Lit by Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe,” which will be published Aug. 9. For 20 long years after Jim Thorpe signed a contract with Hollywood, the sporting ...

Wa-Tho-Huk, also known as James Francis Thorpe or Bright Path, was born in most accounts in [1887 or] 1888. He was a member of the Sac and Fox and Potawatomi Nations. Jim Thorpe was a warrior ...

International Olympic Committee President Juan Antonio Samaranch, center, is flanked by six of late Jim Thorpe’s seven children at a ceremony where Thorpe’s two Olympic gold medals were ...