Hamm Ruling Stands, but Ire at Judges Rises
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The results of the Olympic gymnastics all-around final will not change, leaving Paul Hamm of the United States with the sole gold medal.
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US gymnast Paul Hamm can keep the gold medal he won in the men&#39;s all-around event at the Athens Olympics, a sports tribunal ruled Thursday in Lausanne, Switzerland.
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The International Gymnastics Federation suspended three judges Saturday for a mistake in scoring the men's all-around final, but said results would not be changed and American Paul Hamm would keep his gold medal. The error in Wednesday's all-around cost bronze medalist Yang Tae-young of South Korea a tenth of a point that would have given him the gold.
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Whatever decision the Court of Arbitration for Sport makes in the Paul Hamm case, it won't involve a duplicate gold medal for rival Yang Tae Young. The South Koreans, who claim Yang would have won the Olympic gymnastics all-around had it not been for a scoring error, want their man declared the sole champion.
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THERE was Paul Hamm, another American favorite falling from grace, stumbling backward across a mat and into embarrassment as he landed on, of all places, the judges&#39; table.
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Paul Hamm can keep his Olympic gold medal. Sports' highest court rejected a South Korean appeal Thursday, ruling that Hamm is the rightful champion in the men's all-around gymnastics competition at the Athens Games.
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Athens -- Thursday night at the pool featured a disqualification, then a reversal of the disqualification, then protests of the reversal of the disqualification. Not to mention some nationalistic innuendo, a judge with a language barrier he couldn&#39;t ...
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(Lausanne, Switzerland-AP) Oct. 21, 2004 - The Court of Arbitration for Sport says you can&#39;t change the result of a gymnastics sports competition based on hindsight.
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ATHENS, Greece - The International Gymnastics Federation suspended three judges Saturday for a mistake in scoring the men's all-around final, but said results would not be changed and American Paul Hamm would keep his gold medal. The error in Wednesday's all-around cost bronze medalist Yang Tae-young of South Korea a tenth of a point that would have given him the gold...
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Yet another chapter in the gold medal mess of US gymnast Paul Hamm was written in a courtroom Monday. Hamm appeared at a hearing before the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Laussane, Switzerland.
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A US judge involved in the scoring mistake that may have helped Paul Hamm win the all-around gold medal at the Athens Olympics lost his place Friday on a key committee of gymnastics&#39; world governing body.
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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
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The future of Paul Hamm's gold medal has nothing to do with tumbles and flips, and everything to do with the judgment of three arbitrators. The Court of Arbitration for Sport held an 11 1/2-hour hearing Monday to determine whether Hamm should again be declared the winner of the Olympic gymnastics all-around competition, or the victory should go to Yang Tae-young of South Korea.
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Paul Hamm thought his fantastic finish was too good to be true. Maybe he was right. The International Gymnastics Federation ruled Saturday that Yang Tae-young was unfairly docked a tenth of a point in the all-around final, costing him the gold medal that ended up going to Hamm. The South Korean got the bronze instead.
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The Court of Arbitration for Sport today announced it had rejected a South Korean appeal to reduce Hamm to the silver and give the all-around Olympic gold to a gymnast who lost because of a scoring error.
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Paul Hamm said yesterday that he would give back his Olympic gold medal if sport's highest court ordered him to. But lawyers for the American gymnast and the US Olympic Committee told the sport's highest court that there are no grounds to change the results of last month's men's all-around competition, which Hamm won with the greatest comeback in the ...
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American Paul Hamm and South Korea&#39;s Yang Tae-young have testified before the sports world&#39;s highest court in a hearing to determine who should win the Olympic men&#39;s all-around gymnastics gold medal.