Jim Thorpe’s 1912 Olympic Gold Medals Are Finally Reinstated
2022年7月20日 · Last week, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced that the talented athlete will be reinstated as the sole winner of two events, the pentathlon and decathlon, that he competed in...
Jim Thorpe - Wikipedia
A member of the Sac and Fox Nation, Thorpe was the first Native American to win a gold medal for the United States in the Olympics. Considered one of the most versatile athletes of modern sports, he won two Olympic gold medals in the 1912 Summer Olympics (one in classic pentathlon and the other in decathlon ).
Jim THORPE - Olympics.com
In presenting Jim Thorpe with his two gold medals in Stockholm in July 1912, King Gustav V of Sweden, the patron of the Games of the V Olympiad, said to him: “You sir, are the greatest athlete in the world.”
Jim Thorpe Is Restored as Sole Winner of 1912 Olympic Gold Medals
2022年7月15日 · Jim Thorpe, one of the greatest athletes in history and the victim of what many considered a century-old Olympic injustice, has been restored as the sole winner of the decathlon and...
Jim Thorpe | Biography, Olympics, & Facts | Britannica
4 天之前 · Jim Thorpe was one of the most accomplished all-around athletes in history. In 1950 he was selected by American sportswriters and broadcasters as the greatest American athlete and the greatest gridiron football player of the first half of the 20th century.
Who was Jim Thorpe and why did he lose his gold medals in the …
2024年7月23日 · On this day, July 15th in 1912, Wa-Tho-Huk (“Bright Path”) aka Jim Thorpe, won the gold medal in the decathlon by an astounding 700 points. He won 3 events, had a second place, four thirds ...
Jim Thorpe’s Olympic wins restored - UNC-Chapel Hill
More than a century ago, events from two summers in North Carolina led the International Olympic Committee to strip two gold medals from Native American athlete Jim Thorpe. On July 15, nearly 70 years after his death, the IOC renamed Thorpe the sole winner of the 1912 Olympic decathlon and pentathlon.
110 Years Later, IOC Reinstates Jim Thorpe’s Controversial Gold Medals
2022年7月19日 · 'The best athlete in the world,' Jim Thorpe, lost his two 1912 Olympic gold medals to a technicality (and, many argue, an injustice). Advocates fight to restore his status. Read more…
Jim Thorpe restored as sole gold medalist in 1912 Olympic events
2022年7月15日 · 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.
Jim Thorpe is reinstated as the sole winner of two events in the …
2022年7月15日 · 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...