Jim Thorpe Medals Returned 2024 Dates. Jim thorpe is once again to be recognised by the international olympic committee as the sole gold medal winner of the 1912 olympic pentathlon and decathlon. On the 110th anniversary of his original olympic victory, jim thorpe's gold medals are finally being reinstated.

‘the best athlete in the world,’ jim thorpe, lost his two 1912 olympic gold medals to a technicality (and, many argue, an injustice). What many may not know is thorpe was stripped of the gold medals by the international olympics committee (ioc) one year later after it was discovered he had been.