LAUSANNE, Switzerland — Jim Thorpe has been reinstated as the only winner of the 1912 Olympic pentathlon and decathlon in Stockholm — almost one hundred ten years after being stripped of these gold medals for violations of strict amateurism guidelines of the time. The International Olympic Committee introduced the extrade Friday at the hundred and tenth anniversary of Thorpe prevailing in the decathlon and later being proclaimed via way of means of King Gustav V of Sweden as "the best athlete withinside the world." Thorpe, a Native American, again to a ticker-tape parade in New York, however, months later it become observed he was paid to play minor league baseball over summers, an infringement of the Olympic amateurism guidelines. He become stripped of his gold medals in what become defined because of the first foremost global sports activities scandal. Thorpe to a few stays the best all-around athlete ever. He become voted because of the Associated Press' Athlete of the Half Century on a ballot in 1950. In 1982 — 29 years after Thorpe's death — the IOC gave replica gold medals to his own circle of relatives however his Olympic facts had been now no longer reinstated, nor become his popularity as the only gold medalist of the 2 events. Two years ago, a Bright Path Strong petition endorsed affirming Thorpe the outright winner of the pentathlon and decathlon in 1912. The IOC had indexed him as a co-champion withinside the professional document book. "We welcome the reality that, way to the incredible engagement of Bright Path Strong, an answer will be found," IOC President Thomas Bach stated. "This is a maximum exquisite and precise situation, which has been addressed via way of means of an excellent gesture of truthful play from the National Olympic Committees concerned." Thorpe's Native American name, Wa-To-Huk, means "Bright Path." The company with the assistance of IOC member Anita DeFrantz had contacted the Swedish Olympic Committee and the own circle of relatives of Hugo Wieslander, who were extended to decathlon gold medalist in 1913. "They showed that Wieslander himself had by no means general the Olympic gold medal allotted to him, and had constantly thought that Jim Thorpe becomes the only valid Olympic gold medalist," the IOC stated, including that the Swedish Olympic Committee agreed. "The identical announcement becomes acquired from the Norwegian Olympic and Paralympic Committee and Confederation of Sports, whose athlete, Ferdinand Bie, become named because the gold medalist while Thorpe becomes stripped of the pentathlon title," the IOC stated. Bie can be indexed because the silver medalist withinside the pentathlon, and Wieslander with silver withinside the decathlon. World Athletics, the governing frame of song and field, has additionally agreed to amend its facts, the IOC stated. Bright Path Strong counseled the IOC to "put the document straight" approximately the Sac and Fox and Potawatomi athlete. "We are so thankful this almost one hundred ten-year-vintage injustice has in the end been corrected, and there's no confusion approximately the maximum high-quality athlete in history," stated Nedra Darling, the company co-founder and citizen of the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation. As the primary Native American to win an Olympic gold medal for the United States, Thorpe "has stimulated our humans for generations," stated Fawn Sharp, president of the National Congress of American Indians. In Stockholm, Thorpe tripled the rating of his nearest competitor withinside the pentathlon and had 688 greater factors than the second-positioned finisher withinside the decathlon. During the last ceremony, King Gustav V advised Thorpe: "Sir, you're the best athlete withinside the world."