Jim Thorpe Gold Medal 2024 Tickets. He played professional football, baseball. With the 2024 olympic games upon us, it’s time to look back at one of the most impactful stories in the history of the games:

An oklahoma native, thorpe played six seasons of major league baseball in the years after he became the first native american to win a gold medal, when he won both the decathlon and. More than a century later, the great native american athlete jim thorpe has been reinstated as the one and only champion of the pentathlon and decathlon events at the 1912.