News about Jim Thorpe

Could Patrick Mahomes follow in the footsteps of NFL legends Jim Thorpe and Herschel Walker by competing in the Olympics ? With the addition of flag football to the 2028 Los Angeles Games, the Kansas City Chiefs quarterback says he can imagine himself representing the United States. 'I certainly want to,' Mahomes said before Sunday's match against the Miami Dolphins in Frankfurt, Germany. 'But I've seen some of those guys play flag football.' They're a little faster than I am. For you, linemen are not blocking. I'll be 31, 32 years old. If I can still move around later, I'm going to get out there and throw the football around maybe in Los Angeles.'

Thousands of former Olympic athletes have endorsed the campaign to have Sharron Davies promoted to Games gold, according to a body representing thousands of former Olympic athletes. In what would be a major precedent for clean athletes, the World Olympians Association has joined sports unions, individual athletes, and leading politicians in calling for the book to be updated. Every athlete who has competed at the Games would have to get the right medals to Davies and other athletes who were defeated by drugged opponents, according to the governing body.

ROBERT DINEEN: To those outside the elite swimming community, Petra Schneider lapped the Moscow Olympics pool would have been thrilling, but to those within the sport, it only revealed what they had suspected. The East German coaches' teachings on their teenage female athletes were something troubling. "Sharron Davies, the German biologist who helped establish doping within the Stasi regime, was not racing another human that day; she was fighting a different species, a young girl manipulated by males who changed her physiology to win," she said. Schneider, 17, set the world record for the third time this summer, beating Davies by more than ten seconds to leap into second place. The extraordinary feat relegated Britain's golden girl to the silver medal, making her one of seven British women barred from receiving their rightful position on the podium at the 1980 Olympic Games.