70 Days

Jim Thorpe to some is considered the best all-around American athlete, having excelled in football, basketball and baseball as well as in various track and field events. He won two gold medals in the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, in the Pentathlon and Decathlon. However, in 1913, the I.O.C. discovered that Thorpe had played professional baseball prior to the Olympics, and stripped him of his medals. At that time, the I.O.C. were very serious about allowing only amateur athletes to participate in the Olympics. In a ceremony in 1983, 70 years after Thorpe was stripped of his gold medals, (and thirty years after his death,) the I.O.C. declared Jim Thorpe co-champion with the athletes who had originally placed second to him. They awarded two of Thorpe's children with commemorative medals, since his original ones had been stolen from a museum.

In 2006, the Vancouver Olympic Committee sent 70 of their employees to the Winter Olympics in Turino to shadow their Italian counterparts in order to prepare for the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver.