It does get complicated since my wife had won my in an NPC show before. This just sounds contradictory to me. Maybe Jim M. was trying to be nice to Sean in letting him come back, but this leaves things wide open for debates on what constitutes a professional versus amatuer. Actually, it might not since I "think" that the law is clear on that, but I don't 100% know which is why I am asking.
Heres a tidbit on Jim Thorpe:
Jim Thorpe, the football star and Olympic legend whom Sweden's King Gustav V called "the greatest athlete in the world." was named, in 1950, by the Associated Press the greatest football player and greatest all-round athlete for the first 50 years of this century. Grace Thorpe believes that there will be a naming of the greatest athlete of the century.
When others fail to give her father his due, Grace Thorpe doesn't hesitate to take them on. In 1982, Grace won her five-year battle to get the International Olympic Committee to return the two gold medals - for the decathlon and pentathlon - that her father had won in Stockholm in 1912. The medals were stripped from him after it was discovered that he had played semiprofessional baseball as a student at Carlisle Indian Industrial School.
"The modern day Olympics started in 1896, and they had no hard and fast rules on mixing professional and amateur sports. They sort of made the rules on Dad," said Grace.
With four years to go until the year 2000, Grace Thorpe doesn't think she started the athlete-of-the-century drive too soon.
