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1912: Jim Thorpe of the United States in action at the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm, Sweden. Thorpe was a Native American whose mother gave him the name "Bright Path"; and he was truly the outstanding athlete of the Games in Stockholm. He won the gold medals in the pentathlon and decathlon and was told by the King of Sweden - "Sir, you are the most wonderful athlete in the world". Yet within a year he was disqualified and he had to return the medals. It was discovered that prior to the Games, Thorpe had coached in a youth camp in the States and received a small remuneration, which put him outside the qualification for Olympic competition. The argument about the decision raged for over seventy years, with several campaigns to have him re-instated. Finally, just before the Games of Los Angeles in 1984, some of Thorpe's descendants gathered at a ceremony and received two gold medals from IOC President Juan Antonio Samaranch. Mandatory Credit: IOC/Allsport