The Swedish Olympic Committee replied to a request for comment saying, “S.O.C. would like to quote the Swedish King Gustav V, who said to Jim Thorpe at the medal ceremony, ‘Sir, you are the ...

More than a century later, Jim Thorpe’s Olympic legacy has been ... becoming the first Native American to secure an Olympic gold medal for the United States. But officials later discovered ...

LAUSANNE, Switzerland — 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 ...

Jim Thorpe's epic performance in the 15 events ... He refused to campaign for his reputation, or to fight for his Olympic medals. “I won ’em, and I know I won ’em,” he told his daughter ...

After well over a century, Jim Thorpe -- a ... he never accepted that gold medal, and said they always considered Thorpe as the legitimate winner. The Norwegian Olympic and Paralympic Committee ...

The IOC stripped Thorpe of his gold medals and erased him as the winner ... “We welcome this news and are thrilled to honor Jim Thorpe, a great Olympic champion on the anniversary of his incredi ...

With the 2024 Olympic Games upon us, it’s time to look back at one of the most impactful stories in the history of the Games: how Jim Thorpe lost his medals. Jim Thorpe was born to parents of ...

The gold medals won by Jim Thorpe at the 1912 Olympics, stripped a year later because he had been paid to play minor league baseball, were reinstated this week by the International Olympic Committee.

If there were ever a historical exception to that, though, it was Jim Thorpe ... Athletic Union stripped Thorpe of his gold medals and removed his name from Olympics record books.

They confirmed that Wieslander himself had never accepted the Olympic gold medal allocated to him, and had always been of the opinion that Jim Thorpe was the sole legitimate Olympic gold medallist.

Jim Thorpe was born to parents of ... effort which has allowed Thorpe to recover his gold medals in 2022, as both the Norwegian and Swedish Olympic Committees had to accept the ruling of giving ...