So it is to be farewell to the "Gabbatoir," bastion of Australia Test cricket for the last 90 years.

After a long campaign, descendants and supporters of  Jim Thorpe are celebrating an International Olympic Committee (IOC) decision to finally recognise him as the sole gold medallist of the 1912 Olympics in pentathlon and decathlon.

A hundred years ago this week in Antwerp, Belgium’s footballers were leading 2-0 against Czechoslovakia in the Olympic football final when their opponents stormed off after a disputed sending off. Belgium were awarded gold, but the footballers were just a small part of the original "Golden Generation".

The author of a major novel featuring Jim Thorpe has told insidethegames of his support for the campaign to recognise the athlete as the sole gold medallist in pentathlon and decathlon at the 1912 Olympics.

At the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm, Sweden's Anders Ahlgren fought Finland's Ivor Böhling in the final of the wrestling light heavyweight class. The pair wrested for nine hours without a winner emerging and the officials declared the match a tie. Neither of the two was awarded a gold medal, both receiving silver medals instead. 

When George S. Patton, Jr was preparing for the modern pentathlon at the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm he used to eat a plate of raw steak and salad after each training session. On the final day of the competition, he prepared for the cross-country run by receiving an injection of opium. The regime saw Patton finish fifth. He later found greater fame for commanding the U.S. Seventh Army in the Mediterranean and European during World War Two and for his leadership of the U.S. Third Army in France and Germany following the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944.

French politician Michel Barnier returns to the negotiating table as he leads the European Union team in the discussions on Brexit.

Kanakuri Shizō, a Japanese marathon runner, went missing during the race at the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm. He stopped at a party taking place in a villa on the marathon route in order to quench his thirst, then caught a train to the Swedish capital and left the country the next day. He returned to Japan without notifying race officials. But 50 years later, after being invited back by the Swedish authorities, he completed the race with an unofficial time of 54 years, 8 months, 6 days, 8 hours, 32 minutes and 20.3 seconds. Portugal's Francisco Lázaro died from heat exhaustion during, the only athlete to die during the running of an Olympic marathon.