The 1956 Olympics Wilma Rudolph a 16 year old won a bronze medal in the 4x100 meter relay, this achievement was even more remarkable considering that she had polio as a child and wore braces on her legs until the age of nine. She began running and no one could stop her, in high school she never lost a meet. After triumphing in the 1956 Olympics she did even better in the 1960 Olympic games, winning gold medals in the 100 meter, 200 meter, and 4x100 meter relay. She became the first american woman to win 3 medals in 1 Olympic games. The star of the 1912 Olympic games held in Stockholm was Jim Thorpe an American Indian who won both the decathlon and pentathlon. Jim died 29 years after he was officially pardoned by the IOC. In the year 1920,
