Welcome to our eighth installment of Top 5 Dead Or Alive. In case you missed our piece last Friday on fictional athletes, we want you to know that this feature is designed specifically to make life hell for our employees. Each week, we’ll ask one of our writers to come up with a definitive list of the five best people, places or things in a particularly subjective category — then, we’ll ask you to tell him who or what is missing from the list. Feel free to be a total dick. After the jump, this week’s category: the five best Olympic athletes of all time.

The son of one of the greatest athletes of all time, Jim Thorpe, wants his father’s remains returned to Oklahoma from the small town in Pennsylvania that uses them as a tourist attraction.