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On the 110th anniversary of Jim Thorpe’s dominant 1912 Olympics performance, the International Olympic Committee restored the athlete’s status Friday as the sole winner of the pentathlon and decathlon...
Jim Thorpe, stripped of two gold medals because he'd been paid to play minor league baseball, was reinstated by the IOC on Thursday as the sole winner of the decathlon and pentathlon at the Stockholm Olympics.
Thorpe was originally stripped of his gold medals in the decathlon and pentathlon events at the Stockholm Games.
/PRNewswire/ -- The International Olympic Committee (IOC) reinstates Jim Thorpe as the sole champion of the decathlon and pentathlon in the 1912 Olympic Games....
The Native American Sweden's King Gustav V declared "the greatest athlete in the world" was stripped of his medals in what was dubbed the first major international sports scandal.