Jim Thorpe Medals Returned 2024 Medals Returned

Jim Thorpe Medals Returned 2024 Medals Returned. 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. Attempts to have the medals returned were not rewarded until 1982, almost 30 years after thorpe's death (1953), when replicas were delivered to his family.

Thorpe, who excelled at a dozen or more sports, had dominated his two events at the 1912 games in stockholm but was stripped of his medals after it emerged that he had earned a few dollars. How sac and fox native american, jim thorpe lost his olympic gold medals and records from the 1912 olympics is discussed in detail showing the part racism played.