Speaker: Matthew Andrews, teaching associate professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
More than a century ago, events from two summers in North Carolina led the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to strip two gold medals from American Indian athlete Jim Thorpe. Once considered the greatest athlete in the world, Thorpe found himself at the center of a major sports scandal. In 2022, nearly 70 years after his death, the IOC renamed Thorpe the sole winner of the 1912 Olympic decathlon and pentathlon.
Matthew Andrews is a teaching associate professor in the College of Arts and Sciences’ history department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He specializes in the link between sports and American culture.
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