Thorpe reinstated as sole winner in 1912 events

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Jim Thorpe, stripped of two gold medals because he’d been paid to play minor league baseball, was reinstated by the IOC on Thursday as the sole winner of the decathlon and pentathlon at the Stockholm Olympics.

Jim Thorpe, stripped of two gold medals because he’d been paid to play minor league baseball, was reinstated by the IOC on Thursday as the sole winner of the decathlon and pentathlon at the Stockholm Olympics.

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