The official report for the Games would not be changed.

The other athletes — Bie and Wieslander — would retain the rankings and records they had been given after the 1913 disqualification.

And the IOC declared Thorpe not the sole winner of the two events, but a co-champion.

Equal in the record to the two men he had defeated by enormous margins.

This was, as the Gilder Lehrman Institute put it later, “a sports absurdity.” Two gold medalists in a single competition.

Thorpe officially the same as the men he had beaten by hundreds of points, without his actual scores being entered in the official record.