America has supplied the Olympics with many of the “world’s greatest athletes”

When Jim Thorpe was one of the world’s best baseball players, best football players, and best track and field athletes he was overseas, having just completed the second day of the 10-event decathlon at the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm.

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