...in 1983, Jim Thorpe's medals were returned to him.Jim Thorpe
Posthumously, of course, as he had been dead for 30 years by this time.
In the days of the better athletes, he had been stripped of his Olympic medals because it had been found that he had played on a minor league baseball team at one time prior to his participation in the 1912 Olympics. Now, in the time of obscenely-paid media stars, there are whole teams that are made up of professional athletes. The participants can jump back forth between amateur and professional, and even pose for Playboy<tm> and nothing happens to them.
The Olympic Games have become a farce...
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