Jim Thorpe Medals Returned 2024 Schedule

Jim Thorpe Medals Returned 2024 Schedule. Thorpe, a member of the sac and fox nation and the first native american to win an olympic gold medal for. 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.

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. 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: