Jim Thorpe is a household name for many sports fans ... when he won both the decathlon and pentathlon at the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm, Sweden. In the following year, however, the International ...

We explore the life of the American Indian who was the star of the 1912 Olympics. Show more This special programme explores the sad and controversial life of Jim Thorpe - the American Indian who ...

“For either his contribution to the country or to the world, I think Jim Thorpe fits in both. Not only did he represent the United States at the 1912 Olympics, he wasn’t even a citizen.

Jim Thorpe was arguably the greatest all-round athlete of the 20th century. He was probably also the unluckiest. At an admirably organised Olympics Games that introduced electronic timing and a ...

Jim Thorpe was arguably the greatest all-round athlete of the 20th century. He was probably also the unluckiest. At an admirably organised Olympics Games that introduced electronic timing and a ...

Jim Thorpe was the first Native American to win an Olympic gold medal, winning for the United States in the decathlon and ...

Jim Thorpe went on to become the first Native American athlete to win an Olympic gold medal for the United States and is considered by many to be one of the greatest athletes of all time. In 1912 ...

Jim Thorpe and his older half-brother Frank entered a saloon in Shawnee, Okla. Jim set a dollar coin on the bar. Frank ...

Thorpe, winner of the 1912 Olympic decathlon and pentathlon and a ... the two small Pennsylvania towns combined into one and was renamed Jim Thorpe.

When an American Indian named Jim Thorpe won the gold medal in the decathlon at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, legend has it that King Gustav V of Sweden presented him the medal and said ...