Gymnastics Crowd Boos at Olympics Cause Judges to Change Scores
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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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ATHENS, Greece - World gymnastics officials were looking for a way out of the Paul Hamm medal mess. All they did was make more people mad...
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American Shawn Crawford won the Athens Games 200 meters final Thursday in a race delayed five minutes by chanting and booing from hostile sections of the crowd at the Olympic stadium.
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ATHENS, Greece - For 10 minutes, the crowd booed and whistled. Paul Hamm sat around and waited to start his routine. A week&#39;s worth of controversy in gymnastics boiled over into the crowd last night during
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The horizontal bar final is hit by controversy and a delay caused by protests from the crowd.
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The final night of gymnastics competition at the 2004 Games ended with another black eye for the beleaguered sport as spectators at Olympic Indoor Hall turned their rage against a panel
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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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There has been more controversy at the Olympics in Athens, Greece over the scoring in men&#39;s gymnastics, this time in the horizontal (high) bar finals.
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ATHENS, Greece - Paul Hamm's gold medal just lost its luster. A scoring mistake at the all-around gymnastics final cost South Korea's Yang Tae-young the gold that ended up going to Hamm, the International Gymnastics Federation ruled Saturday...
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Although they cannot take away Paul Hamm&#39;s gold medal in the men&#39;s gymnastics all-around final, officials with the International Gymnastics Federation could announce sanctions today against judges in the event, an FIG spokesman said Friday.
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Fans and athletes give Olympic judges low marks.
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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 - Three got medals, and Paul Hamm got mad. The United States upped its gymnastics medal haul to seven Sunday night, the most since the Americans won 16 at the boycotted Los Angeles Games in 1984...
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Gymnastics officials are urgently  considering introducing independent judges after a spate of  scoring controversies marred the competition at the Athens  Olympics.
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American Shawn Crawford won the Athens  Games 200 meters final Thursday in a race delayed five minutes  by chanting and booing from hostile sections of the crowd at  the Olympic stadium.
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ATHENS, Greece - Paul Hamm&#39;s &quot;fairy-tale ending&quot; was unexpectedly revised at the Athens Olympics on Saturday when the international governing body for gymnastics said he should not have received the gold medal in the men&#39;s all-around final.
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The Russians were angry. The South Koreans were angry. The Greeks were angry. Nobody paid for it more than Paul Hamm. For 10 solid minutes, the crowd booed and whistled, creating a deafening roar.