Korea&#39;s chances for duplicate gold appear slim
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The satisfaction of knowing they should have won gymnastics gold might be all the South Koreans get. While the country&#39;s Olympic team met with lawyers Sunday to plan its appeal over the medal given to American
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South Korea have yet to file an appeal to sport&#39;s supreme legal body asking it to award Yang Tae-young the Olympic gymnastics all-round gold medal after a scoring error robbed him off the title last week.
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From Seoul 1988 to Athens 2004, China has pocketed every gold for men&#39;s doubles in the Olympic table tennis tournament and, more amazingly, each time the gold has gone to a different pair of players.
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Gold medals are rare enough commodities but they become even more precious when won as unexpectedly as those by Britain&#39;s 4x100 metres relay team on Saturday.
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ATHENS, Greece Aug. 21, 2004 - Paul Hamm&#39;s gold medal has lost some of its luster. A mistake in scoring of the all-around gymnastics final cost Yang Tae-young the gold that ended up going to Hamm, the International Gymnastics Federation said Saturday.
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The U.S. will undoubtedly be favored to win Olympic gold in 2008 coming off its performance in Las Vegas, but it would be foolish to be so presumptuous.
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(Athens, Greece-AP) Aug. 23, 2004 - It appears the Court of Arbitration for Sport might not hear South Korea&#39;s appeal of the gymnastics gold medal.
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ATHENS, Greece - For the first time since the 1988 Seoul Olympics, the team standing atop the podium for the gold medal ceremony won't be wearing red with its white and blue.    Argentina and Italy will play for the gold after a stunning day that included the United States being humbled 89-81 by Argentina and the Italians using their 3-point prowess to knock off previously unbeaten Lithuania 100-91...
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A different way of calculating the medal standings brings some interesting results.
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South Korea's bid to host the 2014 Winter Olympics is impressive but the country may need to bolster its winter sports competitiveness, an International Olympic Committee evaluation official said on Saturday.
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In many Olympics competitions winners and losers are determined by less than a fraction of a point and even the slightest error in scoring can set back an athlete from the gold to the bronze.
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Japan&#39;s Olympic hammer-throw champion Koji Murofushi, one of Asia&#39;s few medal hopefuls, barely qualified for the final at the world championships here Saturday.
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South Korea's request to have duplicate gold medals awarded in men's all-around gymnastics was rejected by the International Olympic Committee on Friday.
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ATHENS, Greece -- US Olympic officials on Saturday said they would consider supporting South Korean officials in a bid to award duplicate gold medals for the men&#39;s all-around title, according to the Los Angeles Times.
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South Korean officials have launched an appeal over the scoring in the Olympic gymnastics men&#39;s all-round event.
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ATHENS -- US gymnast Paul Hamm won the Olympic all-around gold medal five days ago. At least he thought he did. But with the South Koreans still insisting that bronze medalist Yang Tae Young was robbed, Hamm feels that he has to remind the world who the winner was.
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Throughout Asian soccer, one question looms: Can South Korea come close to matching its sensational run to fourth place in the last World Cup?