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"In the Matter of Jacobus Franciscus Thorpe". The 1912 Olympic Games: results for all competitors in all events, with commentary. Results of the early modern Olympics. Jefferson, N.C: McFarland & Company. ISBN 978-0-7864-1047-7. Newcombe, Jack (1975). The best of the athletic boys: The white man's impact on Jim Thorpe (1st ed.). Garden City, N ...
Jim Thorpe's gold medal was stripped by the International Olympic Committee in 1913, after the IOC learned that Thorpe had taken expense money for playing baseball, violating contemporary Olympic amateurism rules, before the 1912 Games. This moved everyone else up in the rankings.
This made Thorpe and Bie co-champions. In 2022, in consultation with surviving members of Bie's family, the IOC reinstated Thorpe as the sole winner of the event, as all his competitors had always wanted. [3] The placings for each discipline, used to calculate the points awarded against each athlete, were recalculated discounting Thorpe in 1913.
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 ...
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 ...
A decision 110 years in the making.
The athletics programme grew by four events since the 1908 Summer Olympics. The 5000 and 10000 metre races were introduced, as the 5 mile event was eliminated. The 400 metre hurdle event made a brief disappearance, making the 1912 Olympics the only time that event was not held since its introduction in 1900.
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 ...