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 ...

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

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 ...

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

Today, Oklahoma Sports Hall of Fame (OSHOF) and Jim Thorpe Association released the prestigious Paycom Jim Thorpe Award Preseason Watch List. This list includes 35 of the nation’s best defensive backs ...

More on which in a sec. Back to Jim Thorpe. The citizen of the Sac and Fox Nation, one of the greatest American athletes ever, won two Olympic gold medals in the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm in classic ...

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.

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 ...

Thorpe's Olympic victories were revoked when it was discovered that he had made money playing semi-pro baseball, forfeiting his status as an amateur. The medals were reinstated to his family in 1983.