re: Could Jim Thorpe have played professional sports if he was 25 today?

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Would Owens be dominant today? No.

He was one of the few who were let into the controlled sporting white world and dominated.

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Jesse Owens' long jump record suggests you're wrong, especially considering all the things he had working against him compared to modern athletes. It's a lot easier to compare track & field athletes across eras, since the tape measure and the stop watch haven't changed over time. Owens' mark would have won bronze at the 2012 London Olympics. Allow that to soak in for a second. And make no mistake, were Owens born 25 years ago, his long jump PR would be considerably longer than it is. Outliers in one era would have been outliers in any era.