The Wayback Machine helps with the sorts of issues you’ve referenced in that caption there. Especially for more successful sites like yours.

Exactly. I was assuming the “celebrated too early” was about celebrating too quickly after the round ended.

Thank you.

I get you’re trying to help, but...

As Short put a finger in the “lifeless” infant’s mouth to begin CPR,

Instead, he was informed on live television by NBC’s Lewis Johnson that he had been disqualified for “infringement of the inside border.”

How would you like to determine what “modern” refers to?

Asked to prove that I am a woman, I’d probably come up with this—everyone says I’m one.

Even if you make an actual sandwich using two slices [and butter]

I hope the stars never stop flowing to this comment!

You definitely don’t know how to read, because the relevant language from the LOC isn’t the obituary, but the LOC’s own description of Thorpe at the top.

Well, no one is willing to be so unequivocal. Also, what you’re looking for is the ability to objectively say, “those don’t count,” for one reason or another. But, if you’ll accept “greatest athlete” (I know you won’t) then here:

Your argument would hold water... if Thorpe had won by scoring just good enough in each competition to somehow offset the dominations of different athletes in different events.

I mean, yeah, but I mentioned that because I was anticipating someone pointing to it as a reason to doubt his greatness and didn’t want it to go by without acknowledging that they were stripped for political reasons stemming from his greatness and from him being a Native American.

So a person stepped into the javelin competition cold, placed third, and you’re using that as an argument against his greatness?! His training focused on other aspects of the pentathlon and decathlon, but that didn’t stop him from reaching the podium in that particular sport, becuase he was that fucking good!

Thorpe was so dominant in the events he took part in that they found an immediate and permanent way to keep him out, since his ethnic background presented a major political problem.

Agree to disagree.

Which is why Thorpe’s cross-sport excellence is all the more impressive.

Does no one remember Jim Thorpe?

The water was “confused.”