Opinion At long last, the Olympic injustice done to Jim Thorpe is corrected [washingtonpost.com]
By David Maraniss, Photo: Associated Press, The Washington Post, July 17, 2022 More than a century late but better late than never, the Olympic powers-that-be at long last have restored Jim Thorpe to his deserved place in sports history. The records he set and gold medals he won in the decathlon and pentathlon at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics are official now, his alone, 69 years after he died of a heart attack in a trailer home in Southern California, broke and lonely, if not forgotten. As a...