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About this episode

From winning two Olympic gold medals to his fall from grace in amateur athletics to his rebound in professional baseball and football, Jim Thorpe represents one of the greatest machines known to man. Beginning with Thorpe's boyhood days on the Sac and Fox Nation to his rise to athletic stardom, a new documentary, Jim Thorpe: The World's Greatest Athlete, reveals the athlete who rose to the top of the athletic world only to be stripped of his Olympic medals after being accused of professional sports play.

• Release Date

  May 14, 2009

• Runtime

  03:20