Olympic Lessons For Nation Building

Godfrey W. Eneas
Sun, 08 Aug 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Olympiads have established the tradition of creating sporting icons or national heroes.As a boy I used to read stories of Jim Thorpe, the first Native American to win a gold medal for the United States in the Olympics.Thorpe was described as the most versatile athlete on the planet at the time,particularly after winning two gold medals at the 1912 Olympics in the classic pentathlon and the decathlon.