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 ...
Jim Thorpe is a household name for many sports fans, but his full story remains unfamiliar to most. Thorpe played and coached for several teams in the earliest days of professional football, and in ...
Jim Thorpe, who was stripped of his two gold medals from the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm, had his medals reinstated ...
Jim Thorpe was arguably the greatest ... In 1982, some 29 years after his death, the International Olympic Committee officially pardoned Thorpe and presented the medals back to his family, a ...
the first American man to do so at the Olympics since Jim Thorpe in 1912. Thorpe was stripped of his medals in 1912, and named co-champion in 1982. Now, a movement has been renewed to award Thorpe ...
Jim Thorpe went on to become the first Native American athlete to win an Olympic gold medal for the United States and is considered by many to be one of the greatest athletes of all time. In 1912 ...
If there were ever a historical exception to that, though, it was Jim Thorpe ... on the global stage. Thorpe traveled to ...
By Victor Mather and Tariq Panja Thorpe was stripped of his medals in 1912 ... material as a medal won by Jim Thorpe, a discus Al Oerter used in one of his four Olympic victories, Carl Lewis ...
In an ongoing battle for bronze, American gymnast Jordan Chiles saw her medal taken away for the individual floor event of the Paris Olympics. After Chiles initially placed fifth, her coach ...