The most tragic victim of this conflict was Jim Thorpe, who won two gold medals in the Olympic Games in the decathlon and pentathlon, two of the most difficult of all sporting events.
Historians consider this action to be a combination of racism against Thorpe, who was Native American, and a rigid adherence to the idea of amateurism. But that partial victory is now complete. In July, the IOC announced that Thorpe is now officially recognized as the sole winner of the decathlon and pentathlon at the Stockholm Games, while the two athletes who received the medals after they were stripped from Thorpe will be recognized as co-silver medalists of their events.
Even though most Soviet Union and Soviet Bloc Olympians and other top athletes were supported by their governments, Brundage saw no problem in their participation in the Olympics. The value of that government support far exceeded the value of prizes or endorsements that led Brundage to disqualify famous athletes such as Karl Schranz. Athletes from the Soviet Union and the states it dominated were often paid by the military or other state institutions without having to do much other than train and compete.
Some amateurs! Those are all T-bars, not chairlifts, on the poster. The poster was created later than The lower of the tandem T-bars was built in the summer of ; the upper T-bar was built the next summer.
The lower left T-bar was built later. Avery Brundage in He competed with Jim Thorpe, and lost. Not that Tonazzi runs six businesses in Colorado and Italy with neither a business nor college degree. The story begins in Udine, a city of , in the northeast corner of Italy. Tonazzi was a city boy, but his family had a cabin in Valbruna, not far from the renowned ski club at Monte Lussari in the Julian Alps, near the Austrian and Slovenian borders.
