If there were ever a historical exception to that, though, it was Jim Thorpe ... an event taking place 112 years after Thorpe secured his own Olympic immortality — here’s a closer look ...

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 ...

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 ...