Jim Thorpe Biography 2024. Before shohei ohtani, before michael jordan and bo jackson, jim thorpe was the world’s best athlete, and david maraniss tells thorpe’s extraordinary, tragic story with all of the power and detail that it deserves. Jim thorpe won two golds at the 1912 olympics, then had them stripped (and posthumously restored this year).
Jim thorpe was a world class athlete and a member of the citizen potawatomi, sac and fox, and kickapoo nations. Thorpe, who was irish and sac & fox, and charlotte vieux, who was a member of the.
