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Excerpt from The Book: "Jim Thorpe"

Jim Thorpe was an American Indian and a great athlete. In 1912, he competed in the Olympics in Sweden. He entered the pentathlon, which meant he had to excel at five different events. He won easily. Then he entered the decathlon, which is made up of ten different events.He took first place again. The king of Sweden called him the greatest athlete in the world. Jim was happy to come home with his gold medals. He never thought he would have to give them back. But someone found out that when Jim was younger, he had played baseball for a little money.Athletes in the Olympics were not supposed to have taken any money for sports. Jim's medals were taken away from him. Many people were angry. They did not think it was right to take Jim's medals away.