{"id":1557032,"date":"2022-07-15T18:35:07","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T22:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1557032"},"modified":"2022-07-15T18:35:11","modified_gmt":"2022-07-15T22:35:11","slug":"olympics-thorpe-gets-his-due-110-years-after-double-gold-at-stockholm-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/olympics-thorpe-gets-his-due-110-years-after-double-gold-at-stockholm-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympics-Thorpe gets his due 110 years after double gold at Stockholm Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Folympics-thorpe-gets-his-due-110-years-after-double-gold-at-stockholm-games%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1557032&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/oan-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p> (Fixes grammar in first par)<\/p>\n<p>(Reuters) \u2013     Jim Thorpe will now go down as the sole winner of the decathlon and pentathlon at the 1912 Stockholm Games, 110 years after the American was stripped of his medals for infringing amateur rules at the time.<\/p>\n<p>The Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) \u2014 the predecessor of the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) \u2014 deemed Thorpe was not an amateur as he had received payments for making appearances for a North Carolina baseball team before the Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>Thorpe, a Native American and one of the 20th century\u2019s greatest athletes having also played professional baseball and American football, was stripped of his medals in 1913 after reports of the payments appeared in U.S. newspapers.<\/p>\n<p>But in 1983, 30 years after his death, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) officially reinstated his medals, with his children accepting them on his behalf. However, he was still deemed a co-champion in both events.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, the IOC said Sweden\u2019s Hugo Wieslander, who was upgraded to the gold after Thorpe was stripped of his decathlon title, had never accepted the gold because he always maintained Thorpe was the \u201csole legitimate Olympic gold medallist\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Norway\u2019s Olympic committee said Ferdinand Bie made a similar declaration when he was named the winner of the pentathlon.<\/p>\n<p>The IOC announced that Thorpe\u2019s name will henceforth be displayed as the sole gold medallist in the decathlon and the pentathlon, with the silver medals going to Wieslander and Bie, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a most exceptional and unique situation, which has been addressed by an extraordinary gesture of fair play from the National Olympic Committees concerned,\u201d IOC President Thomas Bach said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The athletes who were awarded silver and bronze medallists after Thorpe was stripped of his medals will not be demoted either, with World Athletics agreeing to amend their records.<\/p>\n<p>Thorpe grew up under the name \u2018Wa-Tho-Huk\u2019 which translates to \u2018Bright Path\u2019. Bright Path Strong, an organisation which petitioned to restore Thorpe\u2019s medals, said justice had finally been served.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are so grateful this nearly 110-year-old injustice has finally been corrected and there is no confusion about the most remarkable athlete in history,\u201d its co-founder Nedra Darling said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI pray that Jim, his family, and our ancestors are celebrating that the truth has been upheld today, on this 110th anniversary of Jim being awarded his Olympic gold medals. This is a day for great celebration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(The story refiles to fix grammar in first paragraph)<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Rohith Nair in Bengaluru; Editing by Christian Radnedge)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Fixes grammar in first par) (Reuters) \u2013 Jim Thorpe will now go down as the sole winner of the decathlon and pentathlon at the 1912 Stockholm Games, 110 years<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1557032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1557032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1557032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1557032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1557032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1557032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1557032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}