LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) 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 amateurism rules of the time.
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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 amateurism rules of the time. The International Olympic Committee announced the change Friday on the 110th anniversary of Thorpe winning the decathlon…