Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the International Olympic Committee should correct Jim Thorpe’s Olympic records for his unprecedented accomplishments during the 1912 Olympic Games.

H. Res. 720 · 116th Congress · Nov 20, 2019 · Lineage

RESOLUTION

That it is the sense of the House of Representatives that the International Olympic Committee, through its president, should officially recognize Jim Thorpe’s unprecedented athletic achievements as the sole Gold Medalist in the 1912 pentathlon and decathlon events and correct these inaccuracies in the official Olympic books.

Lineage

Nov 20, 2019viewing Introduced in House Ms. Haaland (for herself, Mr. Cole, Mr. Cox of California, Mr. Grijalva, Ms. Gabbard, Mr. Heck, Mr. Kevin Hern of Oklahoma, Ms. Kendra S. Horn of Oklahoma, Mr. Kelly of Pennsylvania, Mr. Larsen of Washington, Ms. Lee of California, Ms. Jackson Lee, Mr. Levin of Michigan, Mr. Lucas, Mr. Mullin, Mrs. Napolitano, Mr. O'Halleran, Mr. Perry, Ms. Tlaib, Mrs. Torres of California, and Mr. Young) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs

Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the International Olympic Committee should correct Jim Thorpe’s Olympic records for his unprecedented accomplishments during the 1912 Olympic Games.

Cite this provision

Incoming references