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Ruo Ming
If I were afforded the opportunity to meet a famous athlete, I would like to meet Jim Thorpe, the 1912 Olympic Gold Medal winner, whose medal was striped soon after the game, and an Indian athlete, whose ancestry eventually lead to poverty and alcoholism.
About Jim, one of his attractive was his sport talent and achievement; Jim had shown his outstanding sport talent in the Indian Carlisle School. When he walked past the track and beat the school's high jumpers with an impromptu 5-ft 9-in jump while still wearing street clothes. It was the 1912 Olympic game Jim wrote his legend. In the game, he won the both of pentathlon and decathlon game, and in the decathlon , his recorded of 8,413 points stood for nearly two decades, even converts to 6564 points on the current tables, still a very respectable score a nearly century later.
His answer to the King of Sweden also impressed me deeply. When awarding Thorpe his prize for his win in decathlon in 1912 Olympic game, King Gustav said, "You, sir, are the greatest athlete in the world," to which he replied, "Thanks, King". The simply and honestly reply didn't like the one will be standing on the ceremony which great success can bring.
If many repellent human traits surfaced during a tragedy, that tragedy will be absorbing and worth profoundly considering. Thorpe's story was one. In early 1913, U.S. newspapers found and announced that Thorpe had played professional baseball. At that time the player should be amateur status according to the Olympic rule. Thorpe had indeed played professional baseball, what he was done what other college men had done, except that they did not use their own names. Not for the first or last time, a sports organization stuck to the letter not the spirit of the law. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) demanded its medals back.
From a disadvantaged child to the greatest athlete of the first half of the 20th century, Thorpe's succeeded. As in that age racism was rife in the United States, he failed in enjoying real American freedoms. One person with Such strong contrast succeed and fail , that fetches me deeply, if I can talk to him ,I would like to know his view of his life and let him know the IOC had acknowledged that they had erred, and declared you are co-champion.
thanks
Ruo Ming
If I were afforded the opportunity to meet a famous athlete, I would like to meet Jim Thorpe, the 1912 Olympic Gold Medal winner, whose medal was striped soon after the game, and an Indian athlete, whose ancestry eventually lead to poverty and alcoholism.
About Jim, one of his attractive was his sport talent and achievement; Jim had shown his outstanding sport talent in the Indian Carlisle School. When he walked past the track and beat the school's high jumpers with an impromptu 5-ft 9-in jump while still wearing street clothes. It was the 1912 Olympic game Jim wrote his legend. In the game, he won the both of pentathlon and decathlon game, and in the decathlon , his recorded of 8,413 points stood for nearly two decades, even converts to 6564 points on the current tables, still a very respectable score a nearly century later.
His answer to the King of Sweden also impressed me deeply. When awarding Thorpe his prize for his win in decathlon in 1912 Olympic game, King Gustav said, "You, sir, are the greatest athlete in the world," to which he replied, "Thanks, King". The simply and honestly reply didn't like the one will be standing on the ceremony which great success can bring.
If many repellent human traits surfaced during a tragedy, that tragedy will be absorbing and worth profoundly considering. Thorpe's story was one. In early 1913, U.S. newspapers found and announced that Thorpe had played professional baseball. At that time the player should be amateur status according to the Olympic rule. Thorpe had indeed played professional baseball, what he was done what other college men had done, except that they did not use their own names. Not for the first or last time, a sports organization stuck to the letter not the spirit of the law. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) demanded its medals back.
From a disadvantaged child to the greatest athlete of the first half of the 20th century, Thorpe's succeeded. As in that age racism was rife in the United States, he failed in enjoying real American freedoms. One person with Such strong contrast succeed and fail , that fetches me deeply, if I can talk to him ,I would like to know his view of his life and let him know the IOC had acknowledged that they had erred, and declared you are co-champion.
