Jim Thorpe's epic performance in the 15 events ... He refused to campaign for his reputation, or to fight for his Olympic medals. “I won ’em, and I know I won ’em,” he told his daughter ...

The family of renowned Native American athlete and Olympic medalist Jim Thorpe visited the United States Sports Academy in ...

Jim Thorpe won two gold medals at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics wearing different shoes and socks The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has reinstated Jim Thorpe as the winner of the Stockholm ...

The most infamous case was that of Jim Thorpe, a Native American ... Two years after the Games, Olympic officials stripped Thorpe of his medals and erased his name from the record books after ...

In 1912, Jim Thorpe walked the streets of those same American cities, past crowds of people straining to see him. He had just won gold medals for both the pentathlon and the decathlon at the Olympic ...

Until 1986, the IOC’s Olympic Charter strictly stated that athletes competing in the Games must be amateurs, meaning that they couldn’t make money through sports. Most famously, this meant that Jim ...

Jim Thorpe was arguably the greatest ... In 1982, some 29 years after his death, the International Olympic Committee officially pardoned Thorpe and presented the medals back to his family, a ...

Jim Thorpe's story- he was stripped of his medals but they were reinstated 75 years later. This programme looks at the effect that various boycotts and political protests had on the Oylmpics.

Jim Thorpe should be reinstated by the International Olympic Committee as the sole winner ... King Gustav V of Sweden presented him with the medals and famously told him: "You, sir, are ...

When an American Indian named Jim Thorpe won the gold medal in the decathlon at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, legend has it that King Gustav V of Sweden presented him the medal and said ...

Jim Thorpe was arguably the greatest ... In 1982, some 29 years after his death, the International Olympic Committee officially pardoned Thorpe and presented the medals back to his family, a ...