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20. Juli 2022 · Jim Thorpe’s 1912 Olympic Gold Medals Are Finally Reinstated. Officials removed the Native American athlete’s victories from Olympic records in 1913. Tara Wu. Reporter. July 20, 2022....
- Tara Wu
15. Juli 2022 · July 15, 2022. Jim Thorpe, one of the greatest athletes in history and the victim of what many considered a century-old Olympic injustice, has been restored as the sole winner of the decathlon...
A member of the Sac and Fox Nation, Thorpe was the first Native American to win a gold medal for the United States in the Olympics. Considered one of the most versatile athletes of modern sports, he won two Olympic gold medals in the 1912 Summer Olympics (one in classic pentathlon and the other in decathlon ).
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In presenting Jim Thorpe with his two gold medals in Stockholm in July 1912, King Gustav V of Sweden, the patron of the Games of the V Olympiad, said to him: “You sir, are the greatest athlete in the world.” The US track and field star of Native American ancestry had thrilled the Stockholm crowds with his exploits. He began by winning the ...
9. Dez. 2020 · Dec. 9, 2020. It is almost universally viewed today as one of the great sports injustices: Jim Thorpe, the world’s greatest athlete at the time, was stripped of his Olympic decathlon and...
19. Juli 2022 · Vindication for Jim Thorpe finally arrived on July 15, 2022 — 110 years to the day that he took gold in the Olympic decathlon. Friday’s win marks the end of a successful 2-year campaign by ...
15. Juli 2022 · 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...
