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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 ...
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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 ...
As the 2024 Paris Olympics continue, here's a look back at Jim Thorpe's legendary Olympics and professional sports career
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 – All-American (UK title: Man of Bronze) is a 1951 American biographical film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Burt Lancaster as Jim Thorpe, the great Native American athlete who won medals at the 1912 Olympics and distinguished himself in various sports, both in college and on professional teams.
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 ...
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.