Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
In 1983, 30 years after his death, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) restored his Olympic medals with replicas, after ruling that the decision to strip him of his medals fell outside of the required 30 days. Official IOC records still listed Thorpe as co-champion in decathlon and pentathlon until 2022, when it was decided to restore him ...
Thorpe died in 1953 and 30 years later, the IOC restored his Olympic medals with replicas after the organization ruled that the decision to strip him of his medals occurred past the required 30 ...
Thorpe's disqualification in 1913 resulted in Bie being awarded the gold medal, while Donahue and Lukeman moved up to silver and bronze, respectively. When Thorpe's results were reinstated 70 years later, his gold medal status was returned while the other three athletes kept their upgraded placings—resulting in two gold medalists.
In November 1905 the AAU disqualified Egan from all AAU competitions and he had to return all his prizes including his two Olympics medals. [7] [8] Jim Thorpe was stripped of his two gold medals by the IOC in 1913, after the IOC learned that Thorpe had taken expense money for playing baseball before the 1912 Games, violating Olympic amateurism ...
110 years after winning the Olympic decathlon, Jim Thorpe once again is the undisputed champion of the Stockholm Games Tramel's ScissorTales: Jim Thorpe's Olympic records finally restored to 1912 ...
Jim Thorpe won two golds at the 1912 Olympics, then had them stripped (and posthumously restored this year). David Maraniss' new biography honors him.
He lost his Olympic titles after it was found he was paid for playing two seasons of semi-professional baseball before competing in the Olympics, thus violating the amateurism rules. In 1983, 30 years after his death, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) restored his Olympic medals. Thorpe grew up in the Sac and Fox nation in Oklahoma.
A decision 110 years in the making. Home & Garden. Lighter Side