1912 Olympics Jim Thorpe. Designed and sold by bbf1983. ‘the best athlete in the world,’ jim thorpe, lost his two 1912 olympic gold medals to a technicality (and, many argue, an injustice).
It was the summer of 1912, the olympics in sweden. Thorpe competed for the united states in 1912 as a member of the sac and fox nation. The marathon runner who did not stop:
