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Jim Thorpe won two gold medals at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, Sweden , one in the pentathlon and one in the decathlon. His decathlon score of 8,413 points set an Olympic record that stood for nearly two decades.
Thorpe's medals were stripped in 1913 after it was discovered he had played semi-professional baseball in the Eastern Carolina League for Rocky Mount, North Carolina, in 1909 and 1910, violating the amateurism rules in effect for the 1912 Olympics. Critics noted that the protest came more than six months after the Stockholm Games, well outside the 30-day window the Olympic rulebook required.
The IOC approved Thorpe's reinstatement in October 1982, and his children Gale and Bill received commemorative medals at a ceremony on the 18th of January, 1983. He was initially declared co-champion; on the 14th of July, 2022, the IOC voted to restore him as the sole champion in both the pentathlon and the decathlon.
Thorpe played professional baseball, football, and basketball. He played six seasons in Major League Baseball between 1913 and 1919, primarily with the New York Giants. He signed with the Canton Bulldogs football team in 1915 and later played for six NFL teams, retiring at age 41. His professional basketball career was largely unknown until a ticket documenting it was found in 2005.
Two small Pennsylvania towns, Mauch Chunk and East Mauch Chunk, acquired Thorpe's remains in a deal made in May 1954, the year after his death. They merged, renamed themselves Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, and interred his body there in 1957. Thorpe had never visited the area during his lifetime.
In 1950, an Associated Press poll of nearly 400 sportswriters and broadcasters voted Thorpe the greatest athlete of the first half of the 20th century. That same poll named him the greatest American football player of the same period. In 1999, the Associated Press placed him third on its list of the top athletes of the entire 20th century, behind Babe Ruth and Michael Jordan.