He originally won both events, then was DQd as he'd played minor league baseball, then re-instated in 1982 as a co-champion and now is your only champion.
Jim Thorpe, stripped of two gold medals because he'd been paid to play minor league baseball, was reinstated by the IOC on Thursday as the sole winner of the decathlon and pentathlon at the Stockholm Olympics.
He originally won both events, then was DQd as he'd played minor league baseball, then re-instated in 1982 as a co-champion and now is your only champion.
He originally won both events, then was DQd as he'd played minor league baseball, then re-instated in 1982 as a co-champion and now is your only champion.
No idea what you mean by this. Rojo is a professional journalist and this is his website. He shouid have explained what he actually meant
That's on you. Everyone else figured it out.
No it’s on Rojo. He’s the professional journalist who posted this thread. As far as I can tell from his post, Olympians are allowed to have played Major League Baseball but not minor league baseball
DQ and controversy aside, imagine competing in both decathlon and pentathlon in the same meet. And for good measure, Thorpe also competed in the individual LJ and HJ. So 17 events, including:
Pentathlon: long jump, javelin throw, 200-meter dash, discus throw, and 1500-meter run.
Decathlon: 100 meters, long jump, shot put, high jump, 400 meters, discus, 100 meter hurdles, javelin, 1500-meter run.
Individual events: high jump (4th), long jump (7th).
It appears that the rule didn't change until 1986. That means there were thousands of professional athletes prior to that who weren't allowed to compete who could have won medals.
No it’s on Rojo. He’s the professional journalist who posted this thread. As far as I can tell from his post, Olympians are allowed to have played Major League Baseball but not minor league baseball
Classic irrational Brojo hate. He literally links to an article in a post to share with people and you jump on him for not giving you the precise summary you wanted. People want to blame them for the toxicity on this site, but it's the posters at fault.
No it’s on Rojo. He’s the professional journalist who posted this thread. As far as I can tell from his post, Olympians are allowed to have played Major League Baseball but not minor league baseball
Classic irrational Brojo hate. He literally links to an article in a post to share with people and you jump on him for not giving you the precise summary you wanted. People want to blame them for the toxicity on this site, but it's the posters at fault.
Jim Thorpe seems like such a freak athlete, it's unreal. Any modern-day comparisons to him? What kind of numbers would he have put in the modern era?
Jim Thorpe was indeed an extremely rare specimen. I’d say athletes like Deion Sanders, Bo Jackson, Herschel Walker might be modern-day examples. Can’t remember his name, but if that fellow who almost broke the world record in the hurdles also makes it in the NFL as a star, maybe we can list him in the same category. But whoever that fellow is, he has a ways to go yet.
There's a cool small town in Pennsylvania named after him, and a really weird controversy surrounding the internment of his body (a legal battle that lasted decades).
Renaldo Nehemiah set the WR and was not a star in 🏈, but definitely helped stretch the field for a potent offense. Devon Allen looks to be a better prospect, but we’ll see.
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