International Olympic Committee voted to reinstate Jim Thorpe as the sole winner of the gold medals at the 1912 Olympics
AGN.News Team
July 14, 2022
WASHINGTON (AGN.News) – International Olympic Committee voted to reinstate Jim Thorpe as the sole winner of the gold medals in the decathlon and pentathlon at the 1912 Olympics. He is part of the history of the Pro Football Hall.
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Jim Thorpe of the Bulldogs was the NFL’s first president. Thorpe, of the Sac and Fox Nation, was the first Native American to win a gold medal for the United States in the Olympics. Thorpe was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1963, one of seventeen players in the charter class.
Thorpe is memorialized in the Pro Football Hall of Fame rotunda with a larger-than-life statue. He was also inducted into halls of fame for college football, American Olympic teams, and the national track and field competition.
On July 14, 2022 the Lausanne, Switzerland based International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced the sole winner of the gold medals in the decathlon and pentathlon at the 1912 Olympics was Jim Thorpe (born: James Francis Thorpe (1887-1953).
Those two medals were taken from him by the IOC due to erroneously classifying him as professional for violating the contemporary amateurism rules in 1912. The IOC voted to reinstate Thorpe as the sole winner of both events on July 14, 2022.
On this 110th anniversary of James F. Thorpe being awarded his Olympic gold medals, Thorpe’s friends and the Native American community that has long lamented the decision against one of its greatest heroes, welcomes the news of his reinstatement.
Jim Thorpe enjoyed plenty of other athletic success in his life, between an All-Pro NFL career and a seven-year MLB career, but, like many, hit hard times during the Great Depression.
He was named the greatest athlete of the first 50 years of the 20th century by The Associated Press in 1950, and third-greatest of the entire century in 1999, behind only Babe Ruth and Michael Jordan.
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