Considered to be one of the greatest athletes of all time, Jim Thorpe is getting his gold medals back after he was stripped of them in 1913. The International Olympic Committee announced on Friday ...

LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Jim Thorpe has been reinstated as the sole winner of the 1912 Olympic pentathlon and decathlon in Stockholm — nearly 110 years after being stripped of those gold medals ...

A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Feb. 20, 1890, Alma Richards was born in the small southern Utah town of Parowan. And Utah’s Olympic history began.

A special plaque is to be unveiled to commemorate the first Welsh woman to win Olympic gold. Irene Steer, from Cardiff, made history by securing gold at 1912 Olympics in Stockholm in 1912, in the ...

A highly successful businessman, Avery Brundage was equally successful as an athlete and administrator. As an athlete, he was three-time National AAU champion in the decathlon and pentathlon. At the ...

Jim Thorpe, stripped of his 1912 gold medals because he'd been paid to play minor league baseball, was reinstated Thursday as the sole winner of that year's Olympic decathlon and pentathlon by the ...