‘Jim Thorpe Gets His Gold’

INSIDE SPORTS blog

This is all heart-warming but does this mean that all those who violated their ‘amateur’ standing will be retroactively awarded their medals, or is this only reserved for ‘Indigenous’ (American Indian) violators of the Olympic Code?

“Native American athlete Jim Thorpe was reinstated as the winner of the 1912 Olympic pentathlon and decathlon in Stockholm, after he was stripped of his gold medals for more than a century for violating amateur sports rules at the time.

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