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Here and there, there are some people who are supremely endowed. My memory goes back to Jim Thorpe. He never practiced in his life, and he could do anything better than any other football player I ever saw. [18] Thorpe was a third-team All-American in 1908 [26] and a first-team All-American in 1911 and 1912. [5]
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 for violations of strict ...
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 ...
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 ...
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Story at a glance The International Olympic Committee announced Friday that Jim Thorpe will be named as the sole gold medalist for the pentathlon and decathlon in the 1912 Olympic Games. Thorpe, a ...
In 2022, the IOC decided to display Thorpe as the sole gold medal winner after the Swedish Olympic Committee and Wieslander's surviving family members declared Thorpe should be acknowledged as the sole Olympic champion. [3] Avery Brundage, president of the IOC from 1952 to 1972, competed in the decathlon finishing in 16th place. Brundage did ...