Smithsonian Magazine: Why Are Jim Thorpe’s Olympic Records Still Not Recognized?

:It’s been 100 years since Jim Thorpe dashed through the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, and we’re still chasing him. Greatest-evers are always hard to quantify, but Thorpe is especially so, a laconic, evasive passerby who defies Olympic idealizing. A breakfast of champions for Thorpe was no bowl of cereal. It was fried squirrel with creamed gravy after running all night in the woods at the heels of his dogs. Try catching up with that.”

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/why-are-jim-thorpes-olympic-records-still-not-recognized-130986336/?fbclid=IwAR3aKbspKzRoSHL2RUvjnDRP0UT0_hm8kjeU36zoNPdF4zYlP6WA3UyipvY