LAUSANNE, Switzerland Jim Thorpe has been reinstated as the only real winner of the 1912 Olympic pentathlon and decathlon in Stockholm almost 110 years
After a long campaign, descendants and supporters of Jim Thorpe are
celebrating an International Olympic Committee decision to finally
recognise him as the sole gold medallist of the 1912 Olympics in
pentathlon and decathlon.
On the 110th anniversary of Jim Thorpe’s dominant 1912 Olympics performance, the International Olympic Committee restored the athlete’s status Friday as the sole winner of the pentathlon and decathlon.
Jim Thorpe, stripped of two gold medals because he d been paid to play minor league baseball, was reinstated by the IOC on Thursday as the sole winner of the decathlon and pentathlon at the Stockholm Olympics.