U.S. Gymnast Goes From Oops to a Gold Medal
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With spectacular performances on his final two events, American Paul Hamm pulled out one of the biggest comebacks in Olympic gymnastic history.
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ATHENS - After a disastrous landing on the vault that nearly sent him crashing into the judges&#39; laps, Paul Hamm thought his night was over.
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is Olympic gold medal safe in his parents&#39; Wisconsin farmhouse, lovingly tucked into a white gym sock, the gymnast Paul Hamm had one goal in mind when he boarded a plane for Europe last week: to remain the Olympic all-around champion.
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ATHENS, Greece - Sometimes you win silver, and sometimes you lose gold. Tuesday night in an Olympic Indoor Hall that was, for a change, more full than empty, the US Olympic Women&#39;s Gymnastics Team did the latter.
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After 20 years of waiting, a United States men's gymnastics team had won an Olympic medal, its first since 1984. Japan won the gold and Romania took the bronze.
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ATHENS, Greece  -- The U.S. gymnasts stumbled to the finish of their qualifying round Sunday and wound up second to Romania, trailing by more than a half-point. It's a good thing scores start over in Tuesday night's final, which looks to be a showdown between the Americans, the reigning world champions, and the Romanians, who won gold four years ago at the Sydney Games.
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ATHENS -- The mistakes were so minor. Carly Patterson&#39;s foot scraping the lower of the uneven bars. Courtney Kupets&#39; tumbling pass that ended here instead of there. Mohini Bhardwaj&#39;s slight stumble on the beam.
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The Court of Arbitration for Sport in Switzerland made that announcement today. Hamm received gold in the gymnastics all-around at the Athens Olympics.
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The South Korean gymnast who lost the all-around title to Paul Hamm because of a scoring error filed an appeal Sunday with a sports arbitration panel asking it to help him get a gold medal.
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THENS, Aug. 18 - After a disastrous landing on the vault that sent him stumbling off the mat and nearly into the judges&#39; laps, Paul Hamm thought his night was over.
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After falling on the landing of his vault, Paul Hamm put on two of the most spectacular routines of his career to win Olympic gold, the first ever by a U.S. man.
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Paul Hamm became the first American man to claim the Olympic gymnastics men&#39;s all-round gold medal Wednesday.
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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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They were the kind of mistakes only judges see &#151; little touches that seem so inconsequential. But they add up, and they cost the U.S. gymnastics team a gold medal. The Americans settled for silver Tuesday night, done in as much by their own sloppiness as Romania's superiority.
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As a point of personal honor, American Paul Hamm ought to give up the coveted all-around gold medal he won after a scoring error by Olympic judges.
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ATHENS When Carly Patterson of the United States stepped onto the mat for the floor exercises that would close the women&#39;s all-round gymnastics competition on Thursday, the name of Svetlana Khorkina glowed golden at the top of the scoreboard above the ...
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A fall on his vault landing sent Hamm stumbling into the judges&#39; table and all the way down to 12th place in the all-around gymnastics final.