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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 had been stripped of those gold medals for violations of strict amateurism rules of the time.
LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) - Jim Thorpe has been reinstated as the sole winner of the 1912 Olympic pentathlon and decathlon in Stockholm - nearly 110 years after being stripped of those gold medals fo...
15 Jul 2022 - The International Olympic Committee (IOC) will henceforth display the name of Jim Thorpe as the sole gold medallist in pentathlon and decathlon at the Olympic Games Stockholm 1912....