Jim Thorpe Medals Returned 2024 Dates. More than a century ago, events from two summers in north carolina led the international olympic committee to strip two gold medals from native american athlete jim thorpe. The international olympic committee reinstated jim thorpe on thursday as the sole winner of the decathlon and pentathlon events from the 1912 summer olympics in.

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 violations of. The ioc will reinstate jim thorpe as the sole olympic champion in the decathlon and pentathlon of the 1912 olympic games in stockholm.