American athlete Jim Thorpe was famously stripped of his two gold medals from the 1912 Olympics because he'd played minor league baseball three years prior. When were his medals returned?
Answer 1983
Thorpe's medals were given to his children, 30 years after the man voted "Greatest Athlete of the 20th Century" in an ABC poll died in poverty.
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