Attempt for gym gold closure stirs hard feelings
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ATHENS, Greece -- Calling South Korean Yang Tae Young &quot;the true winner,&#39;&#39; International Gymnastics Federation president Bruno Grandi has written a letter to American Paul Hamm, asking him to voluntarily turn over his Olympic gold medal to Yang.
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ATHENS, Greece - When the final whistle blew, an exhausted Mia Hamm was quickly swarmed by 17 thrilled teammates. A few minutes later, an Olympic gold medal was hanging around her neck, too...
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ATHENS, Greece - Paul Hamm'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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ATHENS, Greece  Their own country has a hard time celebrating a silver medal. If it isn&#39;t gold, it&#39;s symbolic of second place or third place, and that&#39;s just not the American way when it comes to the Olympic Games.
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US Olympic officials said Friday the International Gymnastics Federation had pressured Paul Hamm to give up his all-around gold medal.
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ATHENS, Greece -- If international gymnastics is a brick house, the mortar holding it together is a conglomerate of finger-pointing, dubious judging, scandal, complaining and bald-faced weeping.
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SEATTLE  There is no logic behind feeling cheated Saturday, but that pang is still there. Every time a stirring, pixie-dust run like this ends abruptly, an emotional response follows from the aggrieved player or fan, who believe teams with heavy hearts should have divine endings, who deeply feel ...
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World gymnastics officials were looking for a way out of the Paul Hamm medal mess. All they did was make more people mad. The president of the International Gymnastics Federation asked Hamm to give up his
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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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Aug. 26 - I fear the Greeks are in for one final disappointment. Having endured relentless skepticism as well as frequent insult in the run-up the Athens Olympics, they appear to expect effusive congratulations as well as a mass mea culpa.
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EVERY cloud is supposed to have a silver lining. Not true. It turns out that the cloud that has hung over Australian swimmer Brooke Hanson since the Athens Olympics is lined instead with gold.
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ATHENS -- Adam van Koeverden has a message for his fellow Canadian athletes -- quit whining about circumstances you can&#39;t control. &quot;You can&#39;t fall into a corner and cry and say the Canadian sports system has let me down. You have to do things for ...
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There are favorites and there are expectations, but to compete in the Olympics is to hazard the risk of being outfought, outscored, out-happied.
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ATHENS, Greece - Paul Hamm's gold medal just 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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Competition and merchandise are posing some big problems.
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This gold medal comes with a broken heart. This victory - as dominant as the Olympic Games have seen in years from any sport, any team, any nation - comes with a searing sense of loss.
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Dwain Chambers may find it hard to make money from athletics after a leading promoter says the sprinter will not be welcome at Europe's top events.