On Friday, the man the town is named for will receive the country’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom ...

The exact date of Jim Thorpe’s birth is unknown, but it is generally believed that the first Native American to win an Olympic gold medal for the United States—regarded by many as one of the ...

In 1912, Jim Thorpe walked the streets of those same American cities, past crowds of people straining to see him. He had just won gold medals for both the pentathlon and the decathlon at the Olympic ...

More than 500 people – including NFL and college football players – attended the 39th Annual Paycom Jim Thorpe Award Banquet.

Jim Thorpe and Phil Donahue ... of his admiration for Thorpe — The first Native American to win an Olympic Gold Medal. “He set world records in the Decathlon, was a professional football ...

It was because of these two seasons that Thorpe had his Olympic gold medals taken away in 1913 ... towns combined into one and was renamed Jim Thorpe.

Jim Thorpe was arguably the greatest ... In 1982, some 29 years after his death, the International Olympic Committee officially pardoned Thorpe and presented the medals back to his family, a ...

U.S. to Olympic baseball final as Cuban-American Eddy Alvarez becomes sixth athlete in Olympic history with summer and winter medals Alvarez, the third U.S. athlete with medals in both Olympic ...

Jim Thorpe's story- he was stripped of his medals but they were reinstated 75 years later. This programme looks at the effect that various boycotts and political protests had on the Oylmpics.

1913 — Jim Thorpe gives up his track medals from the 1912 Olympic games as a result of his having been a professional. He had been paid $25 for playing in a semipro baseball game. 1951 — Jimmie Foxx ...

Show more This special programme explores the sad and controversial life of Jim Thorpe - the American Indian who was the star of the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm, where the Swedish King famously ...

Jim Thorpe was arguably the greatest ... In 1982, some 29 years after his death, the International Olympic Committee officially pardoned Thorpe and presented the medals back to his family, a ...