The IOC’s decision in 1912 to strip Thorpe’s medals and strike out his records was not just intended to punish him for ...

Pro Football Hall of Famer 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 for ...

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 ...

You think you understand what it means to face impossible odds? What it takes to stare down disaster and still emerge victorious? Then you need to hear about Jim Thorpe. It was the 1912 Stockholm ...

(Reuters) - Jim Thorpe's remains will stay in the Pennsylvania hamlet named for the legendary Native American athlete and Olympics champion, after a federal appeals court on Thursday rejected an ...

Decades after it was shelved, the Olympic champion's unpublished autobiography is giving his granddaughter, and the public, a rare look at the man behind the medals ...

He never visited the towns formerly known as Mauch Chunk and East Mauch Chunk. But the communities united and named their ...