Gymnastics takes a tumble - Hamm and egg on judges&#39; faces
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ATHENS : If they gave out medals for unhappiness and misery, Olympic gymnastics would provide a podium sweep. It seems everyone involved is peeved at someone, feeling slighted or robbed, and not even gold
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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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ATHENS -- With a trick one could describe as a Double Houdini with a Twist, Hiroyuki Tomita executed a last-minute escape from gravity - as well as the pressure of a charging United States - to secure the Olympic men&#39;s gymnastics team ...
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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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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
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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.
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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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"People's power" stopped a gymnastics  contest when judges' scoring destroyed Russian Alexei Nemov's  medal chances on Monday, while Briton Kelly Holmes shattered  Maria Mutola's dream of consecutive 800 meters titles.
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Svetlana Khorkina, who was second to American Carly Patterson in the women&#39;s all-around gymnastics competition, has accused the judges of robbing her of the gold medal and said &quot;everything was decided in advance.
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DR. JACQUES ROGGE warned world gymnastics federation officials yesterday to shape up or he&#39;d throw them out on their pointy little heads.
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ATHENS, Greece  -- For 10 minutes, the crowd booed and whistled, creating a deafening roar. Paul Hamm sat around and waited to start his routine. A week's worth of controversy in gymnastics boiled over into the stands Monday during a bizarre, extraordinary evening. Hamm was able to block out the noise and win a silver medal on high bar, and four-time Olympic gold medalist Alexei Nemov finished fifth, much to the chagrin of the crowd.
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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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Olympic all-round champion Paul Hamm  admitted he would be stunned if he lost the gold medal he was  awarded in Athens following a judging error.
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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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Michael Wilbon is wrong [Sports, Aug. 22]. Paul Hamm should turn in his gold medal, which he did not earn. The judges&#39; clerical error had no effect on how Paul Hamm or Yang Tae Young performed, and the correction can be made after the fact.
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The International Gymnastics Federation suspended three judges Saturday for a mistake in scoring the men&#39;s all-around final but said results won&#39;t be changed and American Paul Hamm will keep his gold medal.
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MOSCOW Russia&#39;s Svetlana Khorkina, who was second to Carly Patterson of the United States in the women&#39;s all-round gymnastics competition, has accused the judges of robbing her of the gold medal, saying &quot;everything was decided in advance.