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The Jim Thorpe Area Running Festival is a series of races started in 2019 in Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania. It includes a marathon, a 26.2 mile footrace that features a steady elevation drop from start to finish.
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.
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 ...
As the 2024 Paris Olympics continue, here's a look back at Jim Thorpe's legendary Olympics and professional sports career
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 ...
The games were the first to have art competitions, women's diving, women's swimming, and the first to feature both the decathlon and the new pentathlon, both won by the American Jim Thorpe. Electric timing was introduced in athletics, while the host country disallowed boxing.
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 ...