Considered to be one of the greatest athletes of all time, Jim Thorpe is getting his gold medals back after he was stripped of them in 1913. The International Olympic Committee announced on Friday that Thorpe would be reinstated as the sole Olympic ...

An Olympic trailblazer died in poverty after being cruelly stripped of his medals over a technicality. Jim Thorpe was the first Native American to win a gold medal for the United States at the Olympics after winning two events at the 1912 Games in Stockholm.

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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, stripped of his 1912 gold medals because he'd been paid to play minor league baseball, was reinstated Thursday as the sole winner of that year's Olympic decathlon and pentathlon by the International Olympic Committee. Thorpe, voted the greatest ...