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The Jim Thorpe Area Running Festival is a series of races started in 2019 in Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania. It includes a marathon, a 26.2 mile footrace that features a steady elevation drop from start to finish.
Masonic Event Center January 21, 2012 Milwaukee: Pabst Theater: January 22, 2012 [f] Wausau: Grand Theater: ... April 19, 2012 Jim Thorpe: Penn's Peak April 20, 2012 ...
In 2022, in consultation with surviving members of Bie's family, the IOC reinstated Thorpe as the sole winner of the event, as all his competitors had always wanted. [ 3 ] The placings for each discipline, used to calculate the points awarded against each athlete, were recalculated discounting Thorpe in 1913.
Central Railroad of New Jersey Station in Jim Thorpe, now a visitors center. Jim Thorpe was founded in 1818 as Mauch Chunk (/ ˌ m ɔː k ˈ tʃ ʌ ŋ k /), a name derived from the term Mawsch Unk, meaning Bear Place in Unami, the language of the native Lenape, possibly a reference to Bear Mountain, an extension of Mauch Chunk Ridge that resembled a sleeping bear, or perhaps the original ...
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 for violations of strict ...
Jim Thorpe's gold medal was stripped by the International Olympic Committee in 1913, after the IOC learned that Thorpe had taken expense money for playing baseball, violating contemporary Olympic amateurism rules, before the 1912 Games. This moved everyone else up in the rankings.
The medals were presented to his children in 1983, an event that occurred 30 years after Thorpe's death. [13] [14] Lastly, in 2022, the IOC declared Thorpe as the sole winner of the pentathlon and decathlon events after extensive consultations with his former competitors' families who said they had always viewed Thorpe as the winner. [15]
Apr. 10—JIM THORPE — The Jim Thorpe Independent Film Festival (JTIFF) returns for its seventh season from April 18 to 21 at the historic Mauch Chunk Opera House. Nestled in the Victorian town ...