The score existed in the world whether it existed in the record books or not.

The institutions caught up to that knowledge, eventually.

They caught up slowly, and partially, and then more fully, and finally in 2022 the official record said what the performance in Stockholm had said in July 1912.

Whether that correction fully addresses what the original disqualification cost — whether it addresses what was taken from Thorpe when he was alive, when his children were growing up, when his grandchildren were forming their understanding of their family history — is a question that the institutions cannot answer.

The record correction is real and meaningful.