In 1913, Olympic Decathlete and Pentathlete Jim Thorpe was stripped of his Gold medals. It was a wrong that wouldn’t be completely corrected for 110 years!
In 1983, Cheryl Miller scored 105 points in a high school basketball game, overshadowing her brother Reggie’s 40 point night.
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And in 2020, Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gianna and seven others were killed when the helicopter they were in crashed in Calabasas, California.
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