Correction, 6-3-16

In the article on the Olympic doping scandal of 1880 (the first one, not the second one with all the interviews) that ran in our May 27 issue, the statement, “Shamateurism and Jim Thorpe should have been separated at birth,” was misattributed to the author, who never said it.  In addition, the previous statement is inaccurate. She did say it, but only to her boyfriend. She prefaced it with, “This is off the record.” He replied, “Don’t tell me. You’re the reporter.” Somehow it got on the record, an error which we regret. We also regret any embarrassment this may have caused, and indeed may still be causing, to Jim Thorpe, his Estate, his heirs and/or assigns, and the town of Jim Thorpe, PA, which in fact has literally nothing to do with the athlete Jim Thorpe, which we regret. Also, the date mentioned for the invention of steroids was inaccurate. Steroids were not invented in 1880. They were invented in 1893, and when they were, they were not steroids. Finally, the date of the debut of the so-called “Modern Olympics” was misstated. The Modern Olympics did not make its debut on the World Stage in May of 1894. It debuted on the World Stage in April of 1896, after an out-of-world tryout run in New Haven, CT and Philadelphia, PA. It closed after just 10 days, due largely to a strike by the World Stagehands Union and not, as mentioned in the article, because of “bad reviews.” We regret this error, but also everything else.