Olympics should mitigate error
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Americans with any sense of fair play will support South Korea&#39;s bid to get a gold medal for a gymnast victimized by a scoring error.
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Winning a gold medal would ease the sting of two Olympic qualifying defeats for the United States team of National Basketball Association stars.
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1. Has any gold medalist had a worse week than Paul Hamm? The IOC seemed to put an official stop to the controversy on Friday by rejecting South Korea&#39;s request to award bronze medalist Yang Tae-young a duplicate gold.
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Chicagoâs plans for a temporary Olympic stadium represents only a small part of what Chicago and the United States Olympic Committee have tried to learn from New Yorkâs failed bid.
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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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Olympic gymnastics judges give out scores with infinitesimal differences. Mistakes are made. In fact, more than one mistake figures into the controversy of whether American Paul Hamm or South Korean Yang Tae Young are more deserving of the gold medal.
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The government and UK Sport must do more to make sure doping does not turn London's 2012 Olympics into a national embarrassment, said a report on Thursday.
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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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ATHENS, August 23 (Itar-Tass) - Russian shot putter Irina Korzhanenko said she was extremely indignant about her disqualification at the Olympic Games in Athens, the director of the Russian anti-doping laboratory, Professor Nikolai Durmanov, said.
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Someone forgot to inform the US Olympic basketball team that it was sent to Athens to try to win a gold medal, not to embarrass its country.
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The judges should also be judged. That thought was probably running through the minds of the outraged crowd watching the Olympic gymnastic competition, which was stained by misjudgment.
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The U.S. Olympic Committee would consider supporting South Korea's bid to pursue a duplicate gold medal for one of its gymnasts to make up for the scoring error that gave American Paul Hamm the all-around title.
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If you picture an Olympic team as athletes in track suits with a few blazer-clad types in the background to look after them, it is time for a radical rethink.
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The 2004 Olympics haven&#39;t even ended yet, but German sports officials and policy-makers are already starting to moan and groan about the German teamâs performance in Greece and are demanding structural changes in the way Olympic hopefuls should be
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ATHENS, Greece - They were the kind of mistakes only judges see - little touches that seem so inconsequential. But they add up, and they cost the U.S...
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It would&#39;ve been understandable if American Matt Emmons had a bad first Olympic experience. The way things had been going, he seemed destined for that.
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ATHENS, Greece -- There was room for one error -- maybe two -- in the Olympic women&#39;s gymnastics final, but not three.