In 1982 the Thorpe family was informed that Jim Thorpe would be reinstated as the winner of the 1912 pentathlon and decathlon. They were presented with medals by the International Olympic ...

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 ...

On the final day of the decathlon, he finished third and fourth ... said at the time of the decision. "Jim Thorpe is a hero across Indian Country and he is an American hero," she added.

has reinstated Jim Thorpe as the winner of the Stockholm 1912 Olympics’ decathlon and pentathlon. The decision overturns a controversy that has hung over his legacy for over a century.

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 ...