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Yes. In October 1982, the IOC Executive Committee approved Thorpe's reinstatement. The IOC declared that Thorpe was co-champion with Wieslander and Bie, even though both considered Thorpe the only champion. On January 18, 1983 Gale and Bill Thorpe (Jim's children) were presented with commemorative medals. The original medals were given to museums, but susequently stolen and still missing.
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What did Jim thorpe win?
The legendary Jim Thorpe won two Olympic Gold Medals at the 1912 Olympics in the Pentathlon and Decathlon.
What was the time-frame of Jim Thorpe's medals?
Jim Thorpe won the pentathlon and decathlon in the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, Sweden. The International Olympic Committee stripped Thrope of his medals in late 1913.
How many olympic medals did Jim Thorpe win?
2 - Thorpe won gold in the Pentathlon and Decathlon at the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm, Sweden.
Who was the American Indian who won medals in the Olympics and was stripped of them?
jim thorpe
Why did Jim Thorpe lose his Olympic medals in 1912?
Jim Thorpe played professional baseball in 1909 and 1910. Although the Olympic rules of 1912 didn't forbade anyone athlete who played professionally, the Amateur Athletic Union, in 1913, retro-actively stripped Thrope of his medals. Thorpe wrote a letter asking to be excused: "I hope I will be partly excused by the fact that I was simply an Indian schoolboy and did not know all about such things. In fact, I did not know that I was doing wrong, because I was doing what I knew several other college men had done, except that they did not use their own names." The 1912 rules also states if anyone objected to the winner's medals, a complaint must be made within 30 days after the medals are awarded; the complaint was made in 1913-- six months after the games. In 1982, after the support of U.S. Congress, Jim Thorpe's Olympic medals were re-instated to him with two of Thorpe's children receiving commemorative medals. The original two medals awarded to Jim Thrope were stolen from a museum. The United States was a overtly racist society at that time, and it is widely believed he was stripped of his medals because of racism.
