6 Athletes Who Had A Second Career In Sports

 

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#3. Jim Thorpe | Olympian, Football, Basketball

After easily winning gold at the 1912 Olympics in the pentathlon and decathlon, Thorpe had his medals stripped a year later when he was outed for being a semi-pro baseball player, which meant he didn’t have amateur status as an Olympian. It’s okay though, he got the medals back … 30 years after he died. He went on to play pro baseball, football, and basketball, which we’re guessing led to him getting laid a whole bunch.