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Read the story of Jim Thorpe's 1912 Olympic performance. 4 events---long jump, high jump, pentathlon, and decathlon. The events overlapped, Thorpe won the pentathlon, winning 4 of 5 events outright, while also qualifying for the high jump finals on the same day. He got gold in the decathlon as well as the pentathlon winning a total of 8 out the fifteen events outright.
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