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The Jim Thorpe Area Running Festival is a series of races started in 2019 in Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania. It includes a marathon, a 26.2 mile footrace that features a steady elevation drop from start to finish.
Native American Son: The Life and Sporting Legend of Jim Thorpe is a 2010 non-fiction book by Kate Buford, published by Alfred A. Knopf. It is now published by University of Nebraska Press . The subject is Jim Thorpe .
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 for violations of strict ...
Jim Thorpe – All-American (UK title: Man of Bronze) is a 1951 American biographical film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Burt Lancaster as Jim Thorpe, the great Native American athlete who won medals at the 1912 Olympics and distinguished himself in various sports, both in college and on professional teams.
110 years after winning the Olympic decathlon, Jim Thorpe once again is the undisputed champion of the Stockholm Games Tramel's ScissorTales: Jim Thorpe's Olympic records finally restored to 1912 ...
Jim Thorpe, who was Sac and Fox, was born in Prague, Oklahoma and in 1912 became the first Native American to win an Olympic gold medal.
The gold medals were restored to Thorpe's children in 1983, 30 years after his death. [9] Portuguese marathon runner Francisco Lázaro became the first Olympic athlete to die in competition after collapsing on the track. Heat exhaustion, sunstroke, heart problems, and a possible electrolyte imbalance are thought to have contributed. [11]
In new biography 'Path Lit by Lightning,' David Maraniss recounts the life of Olympic hero Jim Thorpe, who spent a year playing baseball in Milwaukee.