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Roll On: Everything Roll On
The Rich Roll Podcast
Jim Thorpe - The Winner of the 19 12 Olympic Gold Medal
M jim thorpe is of a indigenous heritage. He grew up in those tribal schools where thea kids had to cut their hair, and they couldn't speak their native tongue. A year after winning his 19 12 olympic medals he had his metal stripped because he had earned 25 dollars a game playing minorly baseball when he needed money. The kind of legacy of avery brundage, the i o c president, who had this fanatical concept of what it meant to be an amateur athlete. But that allegiance to this idealized notion of amateurism played into decisions that brundage made over the many decades that he lorded over the i oC.
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