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On this day, January 18, 1983, the family of Jim Thorpe was presented with commemorative medals for the 1912 Olympics.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page• 1983 – Thirty years after his death, the International Olympic Committee presented commemorative medals to the family of American athlete Jim Thorpe, who had been stripped of his gold medals for playing semi-professional baseball before the 1912 Summer Olympics.