Jim Thorpe, the famed American athlete and U.S. Olympic great runs during a Junior Olympics event in Chicago on June 6, 1948. Thorpe has been reinstated as the sole winner of the 1912 Olympic ...

Jim Thorpe won two Gold Medals for the Pentathlon and Decathlon, setting world records at both events at the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm. Topical Press Agency / Getty Images ...

Executive produced by LeBron James, the new documentary about the legendary Oklahoma athlete debuts July 7 on The History ...

Jim Thorpe, one of the greatest athletes in history and the victim of what many considered a century-old Olympic injustice, has been restored as the sole winner of the decathlon and pentathlon at ...

Jim Thorpe and players on 1912 Carlisle Indian School football team. ... nor was his status as the sole gold medalist of the two events. Olympic champion Jim Thorpe is honored in New York City in ...

Jim Thorpe, a Native American athlete, was stripped of his medals a year after the 1912 Olympics after it was discovered he had made a small sum of money playing minor league baseball ...

Thorpe to some remains the greatest all-around athlete ever. He was voted as The Associated Press Athlete of the Half Century in a poll in 1950. In 1982 — 29 years after Thorpe’s death — the IOC gave ...

Jim Thorpe, stripped of his 1912 gold medals because he'd been paid to play minor league baseball, was reinstated Thursday as the sole winner of that year's Olympic decathlon and pentathlon by the ...

The International Olympic Committee reinstated Jim Thorpe on Thursday as the sole winner of the decathlon and pentathlon events from the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, Sweden, according to ESPN.

Jim Thorpe in 1912 Photo by Branger / Roger Viollet via Getty Images More than a century later, Jim Thorpe’s Olympic legacy has been officially restored. Last week, the International Olympic ...

Jim Thorpe's epic performance in the 15 events that made up the pentathlon and decathlon at the 1912 Summer Games remains the most solid reflection we have of him.

LONDON – Usain Bolt's frisky relationship with Olympic solemnity is some of the best entertainment at the London Games. But when it comes to ranking the greatest Olympians ever, Bolt is nowhere ...