The community project, launched with the hope of reinstating Jim Thorpe’s medals, was ended in 1971. Grace Thorpe Collection, NMAI.AC.085 (011_000_006). National Museum of the American Indian ...

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has reinstated Jim Thorpe as the winner ... and who has fought for the return of Thorpe’s medals, is elated. “We are so grateful his nearly 110 ...

Pro Football Hall of Famer 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 ...

If there were ever a historical exception to that, though, it was Jim ... Thorpe’s score for another four Olympics. In the process, he became the first Native American ever to win gold medals ...

In addition to his legendary performance on the football field, Thorpe played professional baseball and won Olympic gold ...

Related: Returning an Olympic win to Jim Thorpe Controversy struck a year ... Ultimately, in 1982, replicas of his medals ...

Jim Thorpe is a household name for many sports fans ... In the following year, however, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) stripped Thorpe of his medals on the grounds he violated a rule that ...

It was because of these two seasons that Thorpe had his Olympic gold medals taken away in 1913. After a two-year layoff from football, Thorpe returned ... and was renamed Jim Thorpe.

(FOX5) - UNLV safety Jalen Catalon is one of 15 semifinalists for the Paycom Jim Thorpe ... also a Thorpe semifinalist when ...

Like Jim Thorpe, Sanders was immensely versatile. While at Florida State, he played corner, returned punts and excelled ... he won Olympic gold medals for the pentathlon and decathlon.

He's been called one of the greatest athletes of all time. Jim Thorpe dominated like few before or since. But his path to greatness wasn't without obstacles that threatened to derail his success.

Jesse Owens won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympics in Munich ... and field star for the first half of century, outpolling Jim Thorpe by almost three to one. In 1976, President Ford presented ...