James Francis Thorpe (1887-1953) ɗan wasan Ba'amurke ne wanda ya yi fice a wasanni da yawa, gami da ƙwallon ƙafa, ƙwallon kwando, da waƙa da filin. Ana yi masa kallon daya daga cikin manyan 'yan wasa a kowane lokaci. A 1912, ya lashe lambobin zinare biyu a gasar pentathlon da decathlon a gasar Olympics a Stockholm, Sweden. Duk da haka, a cikin 1913, an gano cewa ya buga wasan kwallon kwando kafin ya shiga gasar Olympics, wanda ya saba wa ka'ida a lokacin. Sakamakon haka, an soke lambobin yabo na Olympics, ko da yake daga baya an maido da su bayan mutuwa.