Why were Jim Thorpe’s Olympic medals taken away?

In 1912 Jim Thorpe won gold medals in the decathlon and pentathlon at the Olympics in Stocholm. However, the medals were taken away in 1913 after it was revealed that he had earlier played semiprofessional baseball, which should have disqualified him from Olympic competition. It was not until 1982 that the International Olympic Committee recognized Thorpe’s amateur status and subsequently restored him as a “cowinner” of the decathlon and pentathlon of the 1912 Games. Thorpe was reinstated as the sole winner of the two events in 2022.