Full Bio: How Jim Thorpe Won, and Lost, His Olympic Medals

All Of It with Alison Stewart | Oct 10, 2022

We continue discussing this month's Full Bio, Path Lit By Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe, with biographer David Maraniss. Today, we discuss the beginning of his career as an athlete, his time in the Olympics, and the reason his medals were taken away, and ultimately returned.

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