Justice For Jim Thorpe Removes Last Hope Of IOC Clinging To ‘Statute Of Limitations’ Excuse For Taking No Action On GDR Doping
To mark the 50th anniversary of the GDR's doping State Research Plan 14:25 we recall the third IOC's decision in 110 years on Jim Thorpe's Olympic golds of 1912, the last move removing one of the last ludicrous excuses for failing to embrace a reconciliation and justice process for the GDR era
To mark the 50th anniversary of East Germany's State Research Plan 14:25 and official birth of the doping heist of the 20th Century, an SOS overview of that horrid history is accompanied by a series of related articles from our archive. Below is from July 2022, when the IOC made its third alteration in 110 years to the results of Jim Thorpe in the pentathlon and decathlon at the 1912 Olympic Games. In reinstating Thorpe to sole Olympic champion in both events, the IOC removed one of the last ludicrous excuses for failing to embrace a reconciliation and justice process over the era of the GDR.
The SOS overview:
From the SOS Archive, July 16, 2022
It does not take a genius to work it out: in going back in time to correct Olympic injustice and declare American Jim Thorpe as the sole gold medalist in the pentathlon and decathlon at the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm, the International Olympic Committee has made it impossible not to act on the GDR Doping era without being accused of discrimination against women athletes.
How now IOC does it look for that “statute of limitations” defence against acting on proven and heavily recorded GDR doping and the evidence of German trials that led to convictions of coaches, doctors and officials for abuse of minors on the watch of Olympic guardians?
