[MarvinStinson]

Jim Thorpe won the decatholon AND the pentathlon at the 1912 Olympics. Several of the events he had never even done before until he got there.

Dwight D Eisenhauer who played football against Jim Thorpe, recalled of Thorpe in a 1961 speech:

"Here and there, there are some people who are supremely endowed. My memory goes back to Jim Thorpe. He never practiced in his life, and he could do anything better than any other football player I ever saw.

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[Neoliberalnot]

Imagine if he had the training of today’s athletes. Recall, the first time he ran track in HS, he mopped up the entire field without a single day of training and it wasn’t a photo finish.