Jim Thorpe

Jim Thorpe

James Francis Thorpe was an American athlete who won Olympic gold medals and played professional football, baseball, and basketball. A citizen of the Sac and Fox Nation, he was the first Native American to win a gold medal for the United States in the Olympics. Considered one of the most versatile athletes of modern sports, Thorpe won two Olympic gold medals in the 1912 Summer Olympics. Thorpe lost his Olympic titles after it was found he had been paid for playing two seasons of semi-professional baseball before competing in the Olympics, thus violating the contemporary amateurism rules. In 1983, 30 years after his death, the International Olympic Committee restored Thorpe's Olympic medals with replicas, after ruling that the decision to strip him of his medals fell outside of the required 30 days. Official IOC records still listed Thorpe as co-champion in the decathlon and pentathlon until 2022, when it was decided to restore him as the sole champion in both events.

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• Wikidata description:  American Track And Field Athlete And Baseball Player (1888-1953)
• Wikidata label:  Jim Thorpe
• Wikidata aliases:  Jim Thorpe, Bright Path, Jacobus Franciscus "Jim" Thorpe, James Francis Thorpe, Wa-Tho-Huk

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