Considered to be one of the greatest athletes of all time, Jim Thorpe is getting his gold medals back after he was stripped of them in 1913. The International Olympic Committee announced on Friday ...
LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Jim Thorpe has been reinstated as the sole winner of the 1912 Olympic pentathlon and decathlon in Stockholm — nearly 110 years after being stripped of those gold medals ...
In June 1912, the Bhoys took part in a Scandinavian tour, playing a series of friendlies in Denmark and Norway. On 29 May, Celtic’s squad took the train from Glasgow to Hull, where they travelled on ...
A special plaque is to be unveiled to commemorate the first Welsh woman to win Olympic gold. Irene Steer, from Cardiff, made history by securing gold at 1912 Olympics in Stockholm in 1912, in the ...
Jim Thorpe, stripped of his 1912 gold medals because he'd been paid to play minor league baseball, was reinstated Thursday as the sole winner of that year's Olympic decathlon and pentathlon by the ...
Big Jim Thorpe, famed American athlete and former U.S. Olympic great, center, sets a fast pace for some girls during a "junior olympics" event on Chicago's south side June 6, 1948 sponsored by a V.F.W ...