Jim Thorpe 1912 Olympics, revisited Thorpe was born in the late 1880s on the Sac and Fox reservation near present-day Prague, Oklahoma.

After decades of lobbying from family and supporters, Jim Thorpe, widely considered one of America’s greatest athletes, will finally be recognized as the sole winner of the pentathlon and ...

Jim Thorpe, a Native American athlete, was stripped of his medals a year after the 1912 Olympics after it was discovered he had made a small sum of money playing minor league baseball ...

After well over a century, Jim Thorpe -- a Native American track and field athlete -- has been reinstated as the sole gold medalist of the 1912 Olympic pentathlon and decathlon events in Stockholm.

The International Olympic Committee reinstated Jim Thorpe as the sole winner in the decathlon and pentathlon for the 1912 Stockholm Olympics.

More than a century late but better late than never, the Olympic powers-that-be at long last have restored Jim Thorpe to his deserved place in sports history. The records he set and gold medals he ...

As the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris get underway — an event taking place 112 years after Thorpe secured his own Olympic immortality — here’s a closer look at Thorpe’s life and athletic ...

Jim Thorpe, the famed American athlete and U.S. Olympic great runs during a Junior Olympics event in Chicago on June 6, 1948. Thorpe has been reinstated as the sole winner of the 1912 Olympic ...

The International Olympic Committee reinstated Jim Thorpe as the sole winner in the decathlon and pentathlon for the 1912 Stockholm Olympics.