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1912: Jim Thorpe of the United States in action at the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm, Sweden. Tho
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1912: Jim Thorpe of the United States in action at the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm, Sweden. Tho
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1912: Jim Thorpe of the United States in action at the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm, Sweden. Thorpe was a Native American whose mother gave him the name +Bright Path+; and he was truly the outstanding athlete of the Games in Stockholm. He won the gold medals in the pentathlon and decathlon and was told by the King ofSweden -Sir, you are the most wonderful athlete in the world+. Yet within a year he ...